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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
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.
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• 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
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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