minor
IPA: mˈaɪnɝ
noun
- (law) A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
- A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
- (Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
- (Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
- (mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
- (Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
- (entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
- (entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
- (campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
- (Scotland law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
- (mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
- (UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.
- A surname.
- (music) Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc. [(music) an interval that is either a minor second, minor third, minor sixth, or a minor seventh]
- (Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun. [A surname.]
- (logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
- (baseball) Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams. [An association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport.]
- (ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores. [(ice hockey) A penalty sending the offending player to the penalty box for 2 minutes or (after the 1955–1956 season) the next score by the opposing team.]
- (rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions. [(rugby, historical) A single point awarded for a touch-in-goal and sometimes for touchdowns or dead balls.]
- (bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit. [(bridge) Either of the suits of diamonds (♦) and clubs (♣), which rank lower than the major suits (spades and hearts).]
verb
- Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.
adjective
- Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
- (law) Underage, not having reached legal majority.
- (medicine, sometimes figurative) Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
- (music) Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
- (music) Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
- (Canada, US, education) Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
- (mathematics) Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
- (logic) Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
- (UK, dated) The younger of two pupils with the same surname.
- (music, historical) Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
- (music, historical) Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
- (politics, obsolete) Of or related to a minority party.
- Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
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Examples of "minor" in Sentences
- The term minor only means that their books are short.
- A _minor third_ has one minor and one major second (_i. e.
- A _minor triad_ has a minor third and a perfect fifth, _i. e.
- A minor scale having the same signature as a major scale is said to be its _relative minor_.
- A minor scale beginning with the same tone as a major scale is referred to as its _tonic minor_.
- Opera [/] (? 'version' (? 'major'\d+) (?' minor'\. \d+) (? 'letters'\w*)) the values' version ',' major 'and' minor 'will be set as' 7.23 ',' 7 'and' .23 'respectively.
- E [flat], d of F, etc., the small letter being used to refer to the minor key or scale, while the capital letter indicates the major key or scale unless accompanied by the word _minor_.
- In reference to persons, certain uses of the word minor may also be mentioned which depend upon usage rather than upon law: the younger of two persons of the same name is sometimes called minor (or "the less") as St. James the Less.
- This interval between the first and third tones consists of four half-steps in the major scale and of three half-steps in the minor scale and this difference in size has given rise to the designation _major_ for the scale having the larger third, and _minor_ for the scale having the smaller one.
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