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What Does Minor Mean

Minoradjective

Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.

Minoradjective

Lesser in importance, rank, or stature

a minor politician.

Minoradjective

Lesser in seriousness or danger

a minor injury.

Minoradjective

(Law) Not having reached legal adulthood.

Minoradjective

Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.

Minoradjective

Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.

Minoradjective

(Logic) Dealing with a more restricted category.

Minoradjective

Relating to or being a minor scale.

Minoradjective

Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.

Minoradjective

Based on a minor scale

a minor key.

Minornoun

One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.

Minornoun

(Law) One who has not reached legal adulthood.

Minornoun

A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.

Minornoun

One studying in a secondary area of specialization

She is a physics minor.

Minornoun

A minor premise.

Minornoun

A minor term.

Minornoun

(Music) A minor key, scale, or interval.

Minornoun

minors(Sports) The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.

Minorverb

To pursue academic studies in a minor field

minored in music.

Minoradjective

Of little significance or importance.

The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

Minoradjective

(music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

a minor scale

Minoradjective

(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

Minornoun

A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

Minornoun

A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.

I became an English minor.

Minornoun

(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

Minornoun

A younger brother (especially at a public school).

Minornoun

(zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

Minornoun

(logic) The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

Minorverb

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

Minornoun

a young person of either sex;

she writes books for children

they're just kids

`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters

Minoradjective

of lesser importance or stature or rank;

a minor poet

had a minor part in the play

a minor official

many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen

minor back roads

Minoradjective

lesser in scope or effect;

had minor differences

a minor disturbance

Minoradjective

inferior in number or size or amount;

a minor share of the profits

Ursa Minor

Minoradjective

of a scale or mode;

the minor keys

in B flat minor

Minoradjective

not of legal age;

minor children

Minoradjective

of lesser seriousness or danger;

suffered only minor injuries

some minor flooding

a minor tropical disturbance

Minoradjective

of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization

Minoradjective

of the younger of two boys with the same family name;

Jones minor

Minoradjective

warranting only temporal punishment;

venial sin

Minoradjective

limited in size or scope;

a small business

a newspaper with a modest circulation

small-scale plans

a pocket-size country

Minoradjective

Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.

Minoradjective

Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.

Minornoun

A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.

Minornoun

The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.

Minornoun

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

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