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Minor
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.
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.
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.
3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
MinorMinor Mi"nor, 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. ?,
Skr. mi to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus,
Minute.]
1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller;
of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of
pitch; as, a minor third.
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:
Meaning of Minor from wikipedia
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Minor scale Minor (given name), a
masculine given name
Minor (surname), a
surname Minor, Alabama, a census-designated...
- A
minor is a
minor scale based on A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key
signature has no
flats or sharps. Its
relative major is C
major and its
parallel major...
- theory, the
minor scale refers to
three scale patterns – the
natural minor scale (or
Aeolian mode), the
harmonic minor scale, and the
melodic minor scale (ascending...
- A
minor seminary or high
school seminary is a
secondary day or
boarding school created for the
specific purpose of
enrolling teenage boys who have expressed...
- The
Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the
official body for
observing and
reporting on
minor planets under the au****es of the
International Astronomical Union...
- In law, a
minor is
someone under a
certain age,
usually the age of majority,
which demarcates an
underage individual from
legal adulthood. The age of...
- The
Minor Arcana,
sometimes known as the
Lesser Arcana, are the suit
cards in a
cartomantic tarot deck.
Ordinary tarot cards first appeared in northern...
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According to the
International Astronomical Union (IAU), a
minor planet is an
astronomical object in
direct orbit around the Sun that is
exclusively classified...
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Sanguisorba minor, the
salad burnet,
garden burnet,
small burnet,
burnet (also used for
Sanguisorba generally),[citation needed] pimpernelle, Toper's...
- A
minor party is a
political party that
plays a
smaller (in some
cases much smaller, even
insignificant in comparison) role than a
major party in a country's...
