min
IPA: mˈɪn
noun
- (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
- An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.
- A river in Fujian, China.
- A group of related Chinese languages from Fujian, including Min Nan and Min Dong.
- A widely construed ethnic group composed of the speakers of those languages.
- Fujian province.
- A river in Sichuan, China.
- A male given name
- A female given name
- The Mountain Ok ethnic group of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
- Abbreviation of minute. [A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).]
- (colloquial) Clipping of minute. [A unit of time equal to sixty seconds (one-sixtieth of an hour).]
- Abbreviation of minimum. [The lowest limit.]
- (colloquial) Clipping of minimum. [The lowest limit.]
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Ming [A member of the Ming dynasty]
- (sports) Abbreviation of Minnesota. [A state in the Upper Midwest region of the United States. Capital: Saint Paul. Largest city: Minneapolis.]
- (sports) Abbreviation of Minneapolis. [The largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County.]
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
- (transitive, obsolete) to remember
- (transitive, obsolete) to mention
adjective
- (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) less
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Examples of "min" in Sentences
- NIH min is slightly under $37K for a 1st-year postdoc right now.
- Some of them are pretty damn funny. 10 min is a little long though.
- wv minfun= in Afrikaans min=little/few. this was definitely "min" fun!
- You can use to layout the GeekTool info =) One with the menubar in min and one without.
- If you're speaking with a man and want to ask him where he's from, you use the phrase min ` ayna ` anta (min ay-na ann-ta).
- For the most part, they are filled chock full of a pack of miserable toadies to the governmint, which manages to gather into them a pack of rottin, ladin Irishmin who can make speeches, dhrink
- When you call the min () method on a collection of numbers, the caller thread will create an accumulator or so-far-the-smallest-value initialized to the minimum value of the given type, let say to zero.
- To quantify the effects of ionizing radiation and other forms of electromagnetic radiation on the electron transfer properties of melanin “we irradiated dry C. neoformans melanin for 20 and 40 min with 14 Gy/min from a 137Cs source and measured its electron transfer properties in the coupled oxidation of NADH and reduction of ferricyanide.
- Yü-ts'un clapped his hands and said smiling, "It's so, I know! for this female pupil of mine, whose name is Tai-yü, invariably pronounces the character _min_ as _mi_, whenever she comes across it in the course of her reading; while, in writing, when she comes to the character 'min,' she likewise reduces the strokes by one, sometimes by two.
- In his eleventh year, he not only published a learned letter in Latin, but translated the travels of Rabbi Benja - min from the Hebrew into French, which ne illustrated with notes, and accompanied with dissertations; a work in which his father, as he himself declares, could give him little assistance, as he did not understand the Rab - binical dialect.
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