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Minutia

//maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A minor detail, often of negligible importance.

    "They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress."

  2. 2
    (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.
  4. 4
    a small or minor detail wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”).

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