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minim

noun
/ˈmɪ.nɪm/

Etymology

See minimum (“least”); so called to humble them even below the Franciscans, or "friars minor".

  1. borrowed from minime

Definitions

  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm.…

    A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

    • He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.

  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. Anything very minute

      Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

      • the minims of existence

    2. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

    3. A little man or being

      A little man or being; a dwarf.

      • These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

    4. A small fish

      A small fish; a minnow.

    5. A short poetical encomium.

      • To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

    6. A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola…

      A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

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Derived

minim confusion, minimometer, minim rest, semiminim

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA