minim
Americannoun
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the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop. min, min.; ♍, ♏
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Music. a note, formerly the shortest in use, but now equivalent in time value to one half of a semibreve; half note.
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the least quantity of anything.
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something very small or insignificant.
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(initial capital letter) a member of a mendicant religious order founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
adjective
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smallest.
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very small.
noun
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M. a unit of fluid measure equal to one sixtieth of a drachm. It is approximately equal to one drop
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Usual US and Canadian name: half-note. music a note having the time value of half a semibreve
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a small or insignificant person or thing
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a downward stroke in calligraphy
adjective
Etymology
Origin of minim
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin, Latin minimus; as musical term, < Medieval Latin ( nota ) minima; see minimum
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What they meant was that Meredith Willson, 63, was a missed minim who didn't belong on the council.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their drop, or sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, is called a minim.
From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton
Flat Hand.—A flat hand is a type of handwriting in which the characters have an oblate or flattened appearance, the o, a, g, &c., being horizontal ovals, like the minim and breve in music.
From The Detection of Forgery A Practical Handbook for the Use of Bankers, Solicitors, Magistrates' Clerks, and All Handling Suspected Documents by Douglas Blackburn
A little girl of 3 years, bitten by a tiger snake, receives three minim injections every half-hour, and after three of them, whilst in a state of complete coma, gets convulsions.
From On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote by A. Mueller
And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above, below, on every side, Their little minim forms arrayed In the tricksy pomp of fairy pride.
From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Margaret Spraque Carhart
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