minim
(noun) a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
minim
(noun) a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Minim (plural Minims or Minimi)
A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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minim (plural minims)
(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
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.
A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
(zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
A little man or being; a dwarf.
A small fish; a minnow.
A short poetical encomium.
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Source: Wiktionary
Min"im, n. Etym: [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.]
1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.
2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.
5. (Eccl. Hist.)
Definition: One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
6. (Mus.)
Definition: A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] Spenser.
Min"im, a.
Definition: Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
