Minorlyadverb
In a minor way; to a small degree.
Minoradjective
Of little significance or importance.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Minornoun
a young person of either sex;
Minoradjective
of lesser importance or stature or rank;
Minoradjective
lesser in scope or effect;
Minoradjective
inferior in number or size or amount;
Minoradjective
of a scale or mode;
Minoradjective
not of legal age;
Minoradjective
of lesser seriousness or danger;
Minoradjective
of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
Minoradjective
of the younger of two boys with the same family name;
Minoradjective
warranting only temporal punishment;
Minoradjective
limited in size or scope;