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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minim
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As tables I and 2 demonstrate, Czerny marks it dotted minim 60.
▪ This was quickly followed by three very corroded Roman minims which were impossible to identify as the markings had been completely erased.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
minim

Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written also minow.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish ( Phoxinus l[ae]vis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
minim

mid-15c., in music, from Latin minimus "smallest, least; minute, trifling, insignificant;" of time, "least, shortest, very short;" of age, "youngest;" as a noun, "least price, lowest price" (see minimum). Calligraphy sense is from c.1600.

Wiktionary
minim

n. 1 (context music English) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem. 2 A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water. 3 A short vertical stroke used in handwriting. 4 Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like. 5 A small fish; a minnow. 6 A little man or being; a dwarf. 7 A short poetical encomium.

WordNet
minim
  1. n. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters

  2. a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram

  3. a musical note having the time value of half a whole note [syn: half note]

Wikipedia
Minim

Minim may refer to:

  • Minim (music), a note length, British English name for a half note (which usually gets two beats)
  • MINIM (band), an industrial rock band from Spain
  • Minim (unit), a small amount of fluid, essentially a standardized drop
  • Minim (religious order), a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula
    • Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary
  • Minim (palaeography), a short vertical stroke used in handwriting
  • Minim (Judaism), a Hebrew word denoting "sectarians" (e.g. Sadducees, Nazoraeans, etc.)
  • Minim, in leafcutter ant colonies, member of the caste of smallest-sized workers
  • Mini-M, also known as Inmarsat-M, a global satellite internet, telephony and fax network operated by Inmarsat
Minim (unit)

The minim (abbreviated min, or ) is a unit of volume in both the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Specifically it is of a fluidram or of a fluid ounce.

The minim was introduced in the 1809 edition of the The pharmacopœia of the Royal College of Physicians of London as an alternative to the drop, which had previously been the smallest unit of the apothecaries' system. It was observed that the size of a drop can vary considerably depending upon the viscosity and specific gravity of the liquid. (At the time, the phenomenon of surface tension was not well-understood.) The minim, on the other hand, was measured with a graduated glass tube known as a "minimometer" later known as the minim-tube. The minim-tube was a type of graduated pipette, a device invented in 1791 by Francois Antoine Henri Descroizilles.

Apothecaries' measures are fully described in the Weights and Measures Act of 1878. In the United Kingdom, the 1963 Weights and Measures Act provided for the abolition of the minim, fluid scruple, and fluid drachm, all already obsolete. Actual delegalization occurred on 1 February 1971.

The use of the minim, along with other such measures, has been reduced by the adoption of the metric system, and even in the least metricated countries, pharmacy in particular (notwithstanding other fields) is largely metricated and deprecates the apothecaries' system. The unit may rarely persist in some countries in the measurement of dosages of medicine.

MINIM (band)

MINIM is a Spanish industrial rock band founded in 2006 in Vigo, Galicia.

Minim (religious order)

The Minims (also called the Minimi or Order of Minims, abbreviated O.M.) are members of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy. The Order soon spread to France, Germany and Spain, and continues to exist today.

Like the other mendicant Orders, there are three separate components, or Orders, of the movement: the friars, contemplative nuns and a Third Order of laypeople who live in the spirit of the Order in their daily lives. At present there are only two fraternities of the Minim tertiaries, both are in Italy.

Minim (palaeography)

In palaeography, a minim is a short, vertical stroke used in handwriting. The word is derived from the Latin minimum, meaning "least" or "smallest".

A minim is the basic stroke for the letters i, m, n, and u in uncial script and later scripts deriving from it. Parts of other letters are based on minims as well: when a minim is extended above the line, it becomes an ascender, as in the letters d and b, and when it is extended below the line, it becomes a descender, as in the letters p and q. It is a stem when it forms only part of a letter, such as r.

Minims often have a connecting stroke which makes it clear that they form an m, n, etc.; however, in Gothic scripts, also known as textualis especially in late examples, minims do not connect to each other at all and it is nearly impossible to tell what letter is meant. A 14th-century example of this is: mimi numinum niuium minimi munium nimium uini muniminum imminui uiui minimum uolunt ("the smallest mimes of the gods of snow do not wish at all in their life that the great duty of the defences of the wine be diminished"). In Gothic script this would look like a series of single strokes (this problem eventually led to a dotted i and a separate letter j).

Middle English scribes adopted a practice of replacing u before n, m, or v with o in order to break up the sequence of minims. The resulting spellings have persisted into modern times in words such as come, love, and honey, where an o stands for a short ŭ.

Gothic minims may have various decorations (essentially serifs), from a simple initial headstroke, to large diamond-shaped finials at the top and bottom, such as in textualis quadrata, the most decorated form of Gothic. Textualis sine pedibus, literally "textualis without feet", has minims with no finials at all, while textualis rotunda has round finials.

Usage examples of "minim".

Nowe hauing in some sorte spoken of the right vse of architecturie, and the direct waye and meanes by order and rule, to finde out, the set downe deuise, and solyde bodye or grounde of the woorke, with facilitie that beeing found out, the architector may vse sundrye deuisions in diuerse perfections, not vnlike vnto a cunning Musition, who hauing deuised his plaine grounde in right measure, with full strokes, afterwarde wyll proportion the same into deuisions, by cromatycall and delyghtfull minims crotchets, and quauers, curiously reporting vpon his plaine song.

The dotted minim value of this corresponds with the semibreve value of the other.

He told me that, as he could not take me with him from Venice, I should have to proceed to Rome, where Grimani would take care to send me, and that I would procure his address at Ancona from one of his friends, called Lazari, a Minim monk, who would likewise supply me with the means of continuing my journey.

I called at the Convent of the Minims, and I found that he had left Naples to proceed to Martorano.

Three leaves were also immersed, each in thirty minims of a solution of one part to 875 of water.

Three leaves were also immersed, each in thirty minims of a solution of one part to 875 of water, though only for 9 hrs.

Five leaves were immersed, each in thirty minims of this solution, which tasted bitter.

I have made here the acquaintance of a learned Minim friar, a Calabrian by birth, whose great qualities have made me think of you every time he has honoured me with a visit.

Along here, small syringe for the camphor, another small syringe for the hyoscinethey hold twenty-five minims each.

My dear son, I have made here the acquaintance of a learned Minim friar, a Calabrian by birth, whose great qualities have made me think of you every time he has honoured me with a visit.

He gave them then a much admirable hymen minim by those delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is in their Maid's Tragedy that was writ for a like twining of lovers: To bed, to bed was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.

I’ve thought it right through, I ‘ave. See, all I ‘ave to do is ‘ear the word ‘demon’ an’ it don’t take me but a minim to carefully an’ thoughtfully decide I’d be better off elsewhere.

Nevertheless, two glands were extremely sensitive to very small doses of the nitrate of ammonia, namely to about 1/20 of a minim of a solution (one part to 5250 of water), containing only 1/115200 of a grain (.

Aye, all the Lads, who push and who-pull, Ev'ry Master, ev'ry Pupil Single-ton and married Coople, Eye at Win-dow, Door and Looph'le, Ev'ry minim, dram and scruple Of their Praise is Thine, Octuple!

It disconcerts the Korsos for a minim when they realize that no oxy tanks, pumps, or scuba gear are in Hiner's bags.