minor \mi"nor\ (m[imac]"n[~e]r), a. [L., a comparative with no
positive; akin to AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG.
minniro, a., min, adv., Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth.
minniza, a., mins, adv., Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L.
minuere to lessen, Gr. miny`qein, Skr. mi to damage. Cf.
Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.]
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1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller;
of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
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2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of
pitch; as, a minor third.
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Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia
which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north,
and the Mediterranean on the south.
Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third
and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn
subjects.
Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in
ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as
doorkeepers, acolytes, etc.
Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various.
The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor,
with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which
involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones,
between the sixth and seventh, as, 6/F, 7/G[sharp], 8/A.
But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh
are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in
the descending, scale, thus:
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[1913 Webster] See Major.
Minor term of a syllogism (Logic), the subject of the
conclusion.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Minor \Mi"nor\, n.
1. 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.
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Note: In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign
ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority
of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the
completion of the eighteenth year of his age.
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2. (Logic) 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.
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3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
minor
adj 1: 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" [ant: major]
2: lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor
disturbance" [ant: major]
3: inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the
profits"; "Ursa Minor" [ant: major]
4: of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
[ant: major]
5: not of legal age; "minor children" [syn: nonaged, underage]
[ant: major]
6: of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor
injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical
disturbance" [ant: major]
7: of your secondary field of academic concentration or
specialization [ant: major]
8: of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones
minor" [syn: minor(ip)]
9: warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin" [syn: venial]
10: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper
with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a
pocket-size country" [syn: modest, small, small-scale,
pocket-size, pocket-sized]
n : a young person of either sex; "she writes books for
children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British
term for youngsters" [syn: child, kid, youngster, shaver,
nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry,
nestling]
WordNet (r) 2.0
178 Moby Thesaurus words for "minor":
academic specialty, adolescent, area, average, baby, back-burner,
boy, budding, callow, casual, child, classical education, common,
core curriculum, course, course of study, curriculum, demeaning,
dependent, dewy, dinky, disadvantaged, discipline, dispensable,
dominant, elective, fair, field, fledgling, general education,
general studies, girl, green, growing, hopeful, humanities, humble,
immaterial, immature, impubic, in the shade, inappreciable,
inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, inessential,
inexperienced, infant, inferior, infra dig, ingenuous, innocent,
insignificant, intact, irrelevant, juicy, junior, juvenal,
juvenile, key, key signature, keynote, lad, laddie, lass, lassie,
less, lesser, liberal arts, light, little, low, lower, lowly,
major, major key, mediant, mediocre, medium, middling, minute,
modest, naive, negligible, new-fledged, nonessential, not vital,
obscure, one-horse, ordinary, paltry, pedal point, petit, petty,
picayune, piddling, proseminar, pubescent, quadrivium, raw,
refresher course, ripening, sapling, sappy, schoolboy, schoolgirl,
scientific education, second rank, second string, second-rate,
secondary, seminar, servile, shoestring, slight, slip, small,
small-beer, small-fry, small-time, smaller, specialty, sprig,
stripling, study, sub, subaltern, subdiscipline, subdominant,
subject, submediant, subordinate, subservient, subsidiary,
subtonic, supertonic, technical, technical education, teenager,
teener, teenybopper, tender, third rank, third string, tonality,
tonic, tonic key, trifling, trivial, trivium, two-bit, unadult,
underage, underprivileged, undeveloped, undistinguished,
unessential, unfledged, unformed, unimportant, unimpressive,
unlicked, unmellowed, unnoteworthy, unnoticeable, unripe,
unseasoned, vernal, virginal, vulgar, ward, young hopeful,
young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
MINOR, persons. One under the age of twenty-one years, while in a state of
infancy; one who has not attained the age of a major. The terms major and
minor, are more particularly used in the civil law. The common law terms are
adult and infant. See Infant.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MINOR, adj. Less objectionable.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
Minor, AL (CDP, FIPS 49072)
Location: 33.52530 N, 86.94761 W
Population (1990): 3313 (1349 housing units)
Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Minor, AL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Alabama
Population (2000): 1116
Housing Units (2000): 471
Land area (2000): 0.694337 sq. miles (1.798324 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.694337 sq. miles (1.798324 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49072
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.539656 N, 86.940000 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Minor, AL
Minor
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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