MINIM

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• minmi

Etymology

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• minmi

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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