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Minim
//ˈmɪ.nɪm// noun
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Noun
- 1 A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- 2 A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
- 3 a musical note having the time value of half a whole note wordnet
- 4 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."
- 5 a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram wordnet
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- 6 A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- 7 a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters wordnet
- 8 Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
"the minims of existence"
- 9 The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- 10 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 […]"
- 11 A small fish; a minnow.
- 12 A short poetical encomium.
"To make one minim of thy poor handmaid"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From French minime.
Etymology 2
See minimum (“least”); so called to humble them even below the Franciscans, or "friars minor".
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