minim

/หˆmษช.nษชm/

IPA: /M IH1 N AH0 M/

noun
  1. 1

    A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

  2. 2

    A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 ฮผL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

  3. 3

    A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

  4. 4

    Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    โ€œthe minims of existenceโ€

  5. 5

    The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

  6. 6

    A little man or being; a dwarf.

  7. 7

    A small fish; a minnow.

  8. 8

    A short poetical encomium.

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