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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minor
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a little/minor mistake
▪ The essay was full of little mistakes.
a little/minor mystery
▪ It was a minor mystery how the file had survived the fire.
a major/minor factor (=the most or least important of several factors)
▪ The country’s huge mineral reserves are a major factor behind its economic strength.
a major/minor operation
▪ The unit cares for patients recovering from major operations.
a minor accident (=one that is not serious)
▪ The ice and poor visibility caused minor accidents all over the country.
a minor character
▪ Two of the minor characters get killed.
a minor clash
▪ Minor clashes were reported to have taken place between police and students.
a minor earthquake (=a small one)
▪ Minor earthquakes are relatively common.
a minor exception (=not important)
▪ Everyone was in agreement, with a few minor exceptions.
a minor offence
▪ The police cautioned him for a minor offence.
a minor problem
▪ She has had some minor medical problems.
a minor repair (=a small one)
▪ In the summer, we had to carry out some minor repairs to the roof.
a minor reservation (=not serious or important)
▪ I voted "yes", although I had a few minor reservations
a minor road
▪ France has a huge network of minor roads.
a minor setback (=not very bad)
▪ It was only a minor setback.
a minor/mild stroke (=one that does not have very bad effects)
▪ She had a minor stroke five years ago.
a minor/slight modification (=a small modification)
▪ The document needed a few slight modifications.
a minor/small concession
▪ Washington made a few minor concessions in the climate talks.
a minor/small miracle (=something lucky but not very important)
▪ I’d managed to produce a good meal in half an hour, which seemed like a minor miracle.
a minor/small role
▪ He has had small roles in several other films.
a slight/minor defect
▪ There are one or two minor defects on the car’s paintwork.
a slight/minor disadvantage
▪ Children who are young in their school year sometimes have a slight disadvantage.
a slight/small/minor difference
▪ There’s only a slight difference between the male and the female bird.
a small/minor error
▪ The letter contained some minor spelling errors.
a small/minor incident
▪ An apparently minor incident sparked off rioting.
little/small/minor
▪ Old cars often develop minor engine problems.
major/minor surgery
▪ He will require major surgery to remove the lump.
▪ The President will undergo minor surgery today to remove a small growth from his finger.
minor ailments
▪ minor ailments
minor burns
▪ She is being treated for minor burns.
minor celebrities (=people who are not very famous)
▪ We invited a number of minor celebrities.
minor damage
▪ Fortunately, the fire caused only minor damage.
Minor Leagues
minor quibbles
▪ I’ve just got a few minor quibbles.
minor
▪ A man was treated in hospital for minor injuries.
minor (=not serious)
▪ He suffered a succession of minor illnesses.
minor
▪ Two passengers had to be treated for minor cuts.
minor
▪ His wounds, luckily, were minor.
minor/major etc alterations
▪ The King’s Arms pub is to undergo extensive alterations.
minor/slight adjustment
▪ It just needs a few minor adjustments.
serious/major/basic/minor etc flaw
▪ a slight flaw in the glass
slight/minor (=not serious)
▪ She’s suffering from a slight infection.
slight/small/minor
▪ The proposed changes were relatively minor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
even
▪ When an extended family is living together at close quarters, even minor irritations can grow out of all proportion.
▪ Combined Fleet was not in the mood to accept even minor changes. 2.
▪ And predators are surprisingly nervous about sustaining even minor injuries.
▪ Keep track of spending and do a daily tally of even minor expenses to ensure that your budget is staying on target.
▪ Lowe couldn't handle all the deference that went with even minor royalty.
only
▪ Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
▪ House rules allow only minor gifts such as shirts and souvenir trinkets.
▪ Perhaps the damage here was only minor, a last tremor before the fabric of space-time mended again.
▪ They judged only minor cases; more serious matters were referred to the higher courts.
▪ RioFinex examined the Ordovician volcanic rocks of County Tyrone for base metals but found only minor intersections of low-grade copper mineralisation.
▪ In blood, the majority is found in erythrocytes with only minor quantities in plasma or serum.
▪ There was only minor structural damage to roofs and chimneys.
▪ In retrospect, it seems not only minor, but irrelevant.
relatively
▪ Such a precedent does not exist and will not be established under the relatively minor privatisation programme that we are discussing today.
▪ Much of the controversy centers on two relatively minor farm programs: peanuts and sugar.
▪ As yet, the costs of electronic information sources represent a relatively minor part of a research library's budget.
▪ Thus far, only two relatively minor planks of the 10-point House-initiated legislative agenda have become law.
▪ Although the majority of sporting injuries are relatively minor, a substantial number are more serious.
▪ Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
▪ Further, it is no defense to urge that the religious practices here may be relatively minor encroachments on the First Amendment.
very
▪ Three or four years ago we were involved in this only in a very minor way.
▪ In the scheme of things, they may be very minor.
▪ Clauses 1, 2 and 4 and the corresponding sections exhibit very minor drafting differences.
▪ In practice, however, simple majorities were to be applicable only in six very minor and procedural areas.
▪ Although arrests are up slightly at 20, Chief Supt Tasker said most were for very minor offences, such as drunkenness.
▪ A very minor enemy, and empty.
▪ If he didn't want to go to court for a very minor offence, then you could caution him.
▪ The one percent drop in interest rates will only give very minor help.
■ NOUN
ailment
▪ A series of minor ailments led Grant and Julie to take Maisie to a doctor, and tests revealed leukaemia.
▪ In many states, liberalized workers' compensation programs have permitted unscrupulous employees to parlay minor ailments into early retirements.
▪ Every minor ailment is interpreted as the start of another tumour.
▪ Early in his career, the story goes, a patient appeared with some minor ailment.
▪ Males will have found themselves reassessing minor ailments.
▪ Aromatherapy, as it is more usually practised, is about prevention of major illness and the symptomatic treatment of minor ailments.
▪ Consultations, mostly for minor ailments, are characteristically brief.
▪ Coughs and colds and minor ailments began to seem poor substitutes for the wounds everybody had been expecting when the bombs fell.
alteration
▪ She performed a few minor alterations on her body to make her feel better.
▪ An unacceptable deterioration of glycaemic control occurs when control can not readily be restored by a minor alteration of the treatment regimen.
▪ Archelaus Archelaus, who was roughly contemporary with Diogenes, seems to have taken over Anaxagoras' system, with minor alterations.
▪ An earlier draft had been rejected by the King who had requested a number of minor alterations.
burn
▪ He was taken to hospital with minor burns to his hair, left arm, face and ears.
▪ She needed treatment for smoke inhalation and minor burns.
▪ Mercifully he suffered only minor burns to his wrists and neck, the judge said.
▪ Luckily they got out with minor burns, but that could have been very serious.
change
▪ These frontiers held with minor changes until the republic was abolished by Napoleon in 1808.
▪ Combined Fleet was not in the mood to accept even minor changes. 2.
▪ While examining the smear other minor changes not connected with cancer are often found.
▪ Some minor changes that have been made to the screen and print format menu will also be covered here.
▪ Women with bulimia are often sensitive to minor changes in their body weight.
▪ The Senate bill retains the existing program with minor changes.
▪ The Chancellor also announced some minor changes to Personal Equity Plans.
▪ The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.
character
▪ All the minor characters did all they were meant to do.
▪ Occasionally he will offer a character in the true romantic style, but it will be a minor character.
▪ Turning the original classic topsy-turvy, Stoppard makes Hamlet himself take a back seat and elevates two minor characters to star status.
▪ Before then, many more of the minor characters in the Aum case will have received swift justice.
damage
▪ Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage.
▪ Here in Scituate, the storm caused minor damage, flooding streets and knocking down power lines.
▪ Up to 200 others suffered minor damage.
▪ Historic Curry Village also escaped flooding, the only minor damage inflicted by a rock slide.
▪ Torquay Deaf Club suffered some minor damage, but nothing which could not be easily repaired.
▪ Such acts often involve minor damage to property or disruption of certain routine social events.
▪ There was only minor damage to property, however, and no loss of life.
▪ Devices were also thrown at two other houses in the estate but caused only minor damage.
detail
▪ As for cleansing and lighting these were regarded as relatively minor details whose provision was hardly important.
▪ It didn't matter for, apart from minor details that necessitated some new editing, they were the same.
▪ Maltote was exhausted and had some difficulty remembering certain minor details, but, at last, a full account was given.
▪ These and other minor details are well worth researching for important presentations.
▪ The remainder was taken up with minor details.
▪ A Plate Tectonic Re-cap Rather a lot has been said in this chapter about the minor details of lava flows.
▪ Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
▪ Even that minor detail spoke volumes about the differences in cultures.
difference
▪ This suggests that human genetic variation is the result of only a few thousand minor differences between proteins.
▪ There are also minor differences of which to take account.
▪ Both algorithms produced almost identical maps, with minor differences in the order of repetitive probes and those having identical hybridisation patterns.
▪ But there are minor differences in the way some of the parts are displayed, depending on the option chosen.
▪ There are relatively minor differences which I shall point out where they become relevant.
▪ Of course there have been some minor differences of opinion.
▪ However, there were a number of minor differences.
exception
▪ Third, Tempo 30 would be introduced throughout the experimental area, with only minor exceptions.
▪ With minor exceptions, the Soviet Union fell apart in peace.
groove
▪ Arginine 40 and 40' extend from the A helices towards the minor groove, and contact phosphates G10' and G2.
illness
▪ Such research would be helped by the development of valid, reliable instruments to measure quality of life in common minor illnesses.
▪ By fall the disease, first thought a minor illness, was an epidemic.
▪ Absenteeism, recurrent minor illnesses, accidents at home and at work and disturbed relationships with colleagues are all commonplace.
▪ There are many people who simply can not afford to run to the doctor every time they have a minor illness.
incident
▪ Even a minor incident reveals his desperate determination to overcome, the desperation of the poor.
▪ Sometimes seemingly minor incidents can have a major impact on the outcome in New Hampshire.
▪ Before this happened, however, there were two minor incidents worthy of comment.
▪ Police reported a number of minor incidents but no further serious accidents.
▪ There are, of course, always a number of minor incidents and accidents during training.
▪ The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
injury
▪ Forty-nine people were treated for minor injuries at two hospitals in Olympia.
▪ There was no fire, and all four occupants quickly vacated the wreckage with no more than minor injuries.
▪ Two girls were transported to hospitals with minor injuries.
▪ Shelley was there on her own, seeing to a couple of minor injuries while Mrs Richards dozed in the sickroom.
▪ Paul Warhurst and Phil King are expected to shake off minor injuries in time to face Forest.
▪ She was treated by an emergency medical team for minor injuries, officials said.
key
▪ His eyes narrowed slightly but he started the second verse in the minor key she was using, following her lead.
▪ We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding.
▪ Contrasts of major and minor keys with the same root, found but once in Stuck's first book, are characteristic.
league
▪ The use of smokeless tobacco is now banned in the minor leagues.
▪ He is currently a pitching instructor for the Tampa Yankees, a minor league team.
▪ Claire is likely to return them to the minor leagues.
▪ Nothing he does is minor league.
▪ Just a couple of years later, he was about the best player in the lower minor leagues.
▪ It was truly the minor leagues.
matter
▪ The government is tinkering with minor matters while the Crown Court burns a substantial amount of money.
▪ Most of us have allowed an important relationship to deteriorate over a minor matter that was never intended.
▪ We often receive letters about relatively minor matters that can easily be put right after discussion with patients.
▪ Let's concentrate on the wedding and set aside minor matters like setting up home together, buying furniture and the honeymoon.
▪ To create a law would waste police time on minor matters.
▪ But, except over minor matters, the quality of his work had never been questioned before.
▪ For some, the Council was no more than a prudent but much misunderstood attempt to update a few relatively minor matters.
miracle
▪ Between us we had even hired a video so that we could record this minor miracle of medical history for posterity.
▪ From the kitchen wafts the fragrance of fresh-baked. minor miracles.
modification
▪ The principal results in Section 17.3 go over to the more general case with only minor modifications.
▪ Since neither of the assumptions is normally valid, two minor modifications of the basic model are required.
▪ A template had been forged which was subject to only minor modifications over time.
▪ The engine will fit straight into your Land Rover with minor modifications to fuel lines and wiring and exhaust front pipe.
▪ This consideration has resulted in continuation of the same procedures with some minor modifications for the second phase of pilot schemes.
▪ Participants reported that most workshops were very useful as they stood or needed minor modification.
operation
▪ Opened in 1875, it now provides physiotherapy, x-ray, a casualty service and minor operations.
▪ It's a very minor operation, really.
part
▪ As yet, the costs of electronic information sources represent a relatively minor part of a research library's budget.
▪ Both wanted to be actresses and had already had minor parts on the stage in small theaters.
▪ And on that occasion print propaganda appears to have played only a minor part.
▪ But managing is a minor part of what leaders do.
▪ In fact, drugs are just a minor part of their lives.
▪ A couple of locals, Benjamin Stewart and Maedell Dixon, liven up the minor parts of the doctor and his wife.
▪ The amount spent on the telescope itself - say £10 million - is only a minor part of the total expense!
▪ Training, even specific skill training, was just a minor part of leadership development.
party
▪ Other minor parties accounted for 1.1 percent of the vote and won no seats.
▪ Three minor parties won no seats at all.
problem
▪ The light-hearted tone of Elaine Blond characterised Bloomsbury House policy of not taking minor problems too seriously.
▪ Whomever you consult, what counts is getting help before minor problems become major.
▪ Only the really great champions refuse to be sidetracked by any of these minor problems.
▪ A minor problem prevents the machine firing this turn.
▪ The rocket had a minor problem during its first launch last October.
▪ But that was also just a minor problem.
▪ To Dempster, good-hearted and full of admiration and enthusiasm for Keith's genius, this was only a minor problem.
▪ There were other minor problems which I will not bore you with.
repair
▪ It would apparently only require minor repairs plus a reliable water supply to put the mill back into operation.
▪ Be prepared for minor repairs on the road.
▪ Repair Best done by professionals, but some minor repairs can be safely undertaken at home.
▪ John carried out some minor repairs to the roof, but the bad weather prevented him from tackling any major work.
▪ The family's first stop at a garage for a minor repair led Jack into conversation with the proprietor.
▪ All reported faults will be investigated, and approved minor repairs will be undertaken.
▪ Aluminium parts, in the main, were all recoverable, requiring only cleaning and minor repairs.
▪ It should be easier to get minor repairs done than at present.
road
▪ It is also consistent with the type of situation which was almost never recalled - going straight ahead past a minor road.
▪ Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes.
▪ Moral: minor roads are only a short cut if you know where you are!
▪ After following field tracks and minor roads across mid-Devon, passing through quaint villages, you arrive in Exmoor.
▪ Spouthouse Aqueduct crosses a minor road, by which stand Dyas Take Away and a supermarket.
▪ Turn up minor road for yds, then left through fate into field.
role
▪ A time when adventure came first and pure athleticism played only a minor role in the great climbing game.
▪ The big Muppet stars are relegated to minor roles and humans take center stage.
▪ There were many others playing more minor roles.
▪ They include history; but in this chapter it will play only a minor role.
▪ This kind of group can be thought of as having only a minor role within counselling.
▪ In the realm of secret diplomacy it would appear that public opinion had only a very minor role to play.
▪ Motor buses occupy a relatively minor role in the period covered by this volume.
▪ In sharp contrast to previous pacifist agitations, the Nonconformist churches played only a minor role.
surgery
▪ Others increased provision of minor surgery with a view to reducing referrals to certain specialties.
▪ I wished for my Mom to take care of me after minor surgery last year.
▪ The risks of this condition after elective minor surgery under local anaesthesia have probably not been appreciated.
▪ Finally he decided to enter the hospital for minor surgery, in the hope of seeing more of her there.
▪ We have already ear-marked one fine beech for only minor surgery.
▪ Hopefully, it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hospital for minor surgery.
▪ Had had, so Sammler was told, minor surgery.
variation
▪ There is not only a single currency but also a single economic policy, with only minor variations between states.
▪ The scene repeated with minor variations and the game continued to our amusement for the hour that we were having coffee.
▪ Leaf-gilding usually shows only minor variations in thickness and a superficial bonding to the metal below.
▪ There are many minor variations, from species to species, but these two types of distraction display are the basic forms.
▪ This hairstyle proved pervasive, lasting with minor variations into late antiquity.
▪ The experiments described above were performed more than once, with minor variations in the procedure adopted.
▪ More notable, however, is yet another minor variation of the squat urn.
▪ On these three topics the various works are all agreed apart from minor variations.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Minor Leagues
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a minor traffic violation
▪ a symphony in D minor
▪ Most of the problems have been very minor.
▪ She fell off her horse, but suffered only minor injuries.
▪ She suffered some minor injuries in the accident.
▪ The contract seems fine, except for a few minor details.
▪ Two car windows were broken and minor damage was done to some shops.
▪ We've had a few minor problems with the new computer system.
▪ Williams suffered a minor stroke.
▪ With one or two minor changes, the course is the same as last year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also the main passage is a minor water course, but in rain like this it tends to swell.
▪ Black convicts were rounded up for minor offenses and forced to work.
▪ It is thought to have exploded on Saturday night or Sunday morning and caused minor damage.
▪ Kennedy might call up a minor bureaucrat to check on a detail.
▪ The Kansas senator indicated a willingness to make minor changes in the anti-abortion plank in the Republican platform.
▪ Unfortunately, Graham has a minor shortcoming when it comes to cracks - he can't jam; but he can layback!
▪ We are, after all, always talking about minor quantitative changes in an existing embryonic process.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
sell
▪ The store was cited four times for selling alcoholic beverages to minors during a three-year period that began in 1994.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What's your minor?" "History."
▪ Stores are forbidden to sell alcohol and cigarettes to minors.
▪ Thomas pleaded guilty to buying alcohol for a minor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although they've ended up at the same spot in their careers, they progressed through the minors at different rates.
▪ And in Minnesota, the proportion of second-trimester abortions among minors increased by 18 percent following enactment of parental notification law.
▪ He came up from the minors, directing martial-arts movies.
▪ Major minor was sent off in a school soccer match.
▪ Or have we moved from minor to major?
▪ They were, however, still minors.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
minor

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.]

  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: [1913 Webster] See Major.

    Minor term of a syllogism (Logic), the subject of the conclusion.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
minor

early 14c., "a Franciscan," from Latin Fratres Minores "lesser brethren," name chosen by St. Francis, who founded the order, for the sake of humility; see minor (adj.). From c.1400 as "minor premise of a syllogism." From 1610s as "person under legal age" (Latin used minores (plural) for "the young"). Musical sense is from 1797. Meaning "secondary subject of study, subject of study with fewer credits than a major" is from 1890; as a verb in this sense from 1934.

minor

early 13c., menour "Franciscan" (see minor (n.)), from Latin minor "less, lesser, smaller, junior," figuratively "inferior, less important," formed as a masculine/feminine form of minus on the mistaken assumption that minus was a neuter comparative, from PIE root *mei- (2) "small" (see minus).\n

\nSome English usages are via Old French menor "less, smaller, lower; underage, younger," from Latin minor. Meaning "underage" is from 1570s. Meaning "lesser" in English is from early 15c.; that of "less important" is from 1620s. The musical sense is from 1690s. In the baseball sense, minor league is from 1884; the figurative extension is first recorded 1926.

Wiktionary
minor

  1. 1 Of little significance or importance. 2 (context music English) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered 3 (context music English) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number n. 1 A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities. 2 A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration. 3 (context mathematics English) determinant of a square submatrix v

  2. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

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WordNet
minor

  1. adj. 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]

minor

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]

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Gazetteer
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
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Wikipedia
Minor

Minor may refer to:

  • Minor (law), a person under the age of majority or another age restriction
  • Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
Minor (linear algebra)

In linear algebra, a minor of a matrix A is the determinant of some smaller square matrix, cut down from A by removing one or more of its rows or columns. Minors obtained by removing just one row and one column from square matrices (first minors) are required for calculating matrix cofactors, which in turn are useful for computing both the determinant and inverse of square matrices.

Minor (law)

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age—usually the age of majority—which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood. The age of majority depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is generally 18. Minor may also be used in contexts unconnected to the overall age of majority. For example, the drinking age in the United States is usually 21, and people below this age are sometimes called minors in the context of alcohol law even if they are older than 18. The term underage often refers to those under the age of majority, but may also refer to persons under a certain age limit, such as the drinking age, smoking age, age of consent, marriageable age, driving age, voting age, etc. These age limits are often different from the age of majority.

The concept of minor is not sharply defined in most jurisdictions. The ages of criminal responsibility and consent, the age at which school attendance is no longer obligatory, the age at which legally binding contracts can be entered into, and so on, may be different.

In many countries, including Australia, India, Philippines, Brazil, Croatia, and Colombia, a minor is defined as a person under the age of 18. In the United States, where the age of majority is set by the individual states, minor usually refers to someone under the age of 18, but can in some states be used in certain areas (such as casino gambling, handgun ownership and the consuming of alcohol) to define someone under the age of 21. In the criminal justice system in some places, "minor" is not entirely consistent, as a minor may be tried and punished for a crime either as a "juvenile" or, usually only for "extremely serious crimes" such as murder, as an "adult".

In Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, a minor is a person under 20 years of age. In New Zealand law, the age of majority is 20 years of age as well, but most of the rights of adulthood are assumed at lower ages: for example, entering into contracts and having a will are legally possible at age 15.

Miñor

The Miñor is a river of Galicia, Spain. It is 9.9 miles (16 km) long, and stretches from Or Galiñeiro to the places of Ramallosa and Sabarís.

Minor (academic)

An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary academic discipline during their undergraduate studies. As with an academic major, the college or university in question lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to earn the minor—although the latitude the student is given changes from college to college. Academic minors and majors differ in that the former is subordinate to the latter. To obtain an academic minor, a total of three years of study at a university in a selected subject is the usual requirement.

Some students will prepare for their intended career with their major, while pursuing personal interests with a minor. For example, some students may major in civil engineering and minor in a foreign language.

Other students may pursue a minor to provide specific specialization and thus make themselves more attractive to employers. It is not infrequent for a physics major to minor in computer science or an economics major to minor in mathematics. Engineering students frequently take a minor in mathematics, as they already have most course credits needed for the purpose.

At some point, a minor may be the foundation for a career. For example, students intending to become secondary education teachers often major in their teaching subject area (for example, history or chemistry) and minor in education.

Additionally, a minor may be used to pursue an alternative interest. The same engineering student may decide to minor in performing arts.

In 1910, A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard, "introduced a system that required students to major in a subject and also to take courses outside their areas of concentration." Harvard University itself, however, does not offer undergraduates the option of taking a minor, but rather "a secondary field, similar to a minor at many schools." Australia also offers double majors and minors. However, in other countries, like the United Kingdom, students usually focus on a single area of study. In Quebec, most francophone universities do not use the minor/major structure. Single-year programs are known as certificates and may be combined with other programs to form a bachelor by accumulation (known as a baccalauréat par cumul).

Minor (Tashkent Metro)

Minor is a station of the Tashkent Metro on Yunusobod Line which was opened on 26 October 2001. Station Minor dual span column type has a ground and underground lobbies. Start the station into operation on 26 October 2001 (the first portion Yunusobod Line). The station is decorated with columns made of red granite and located at the center of the platform. The walls are decorated with marble dark colors

Minor (surname)

Minor is a surname shared by several notable people:

  • Benjamin Blake Minor (1818-1905), American educator and writer
  • Charles Landon Carter Minor (1835-1903), American educator
  • Claudie Minor (born 1951), American professional football player
  • Edward S. Minor (1840-1924), American politician
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Usage examples of "minor".

Recording Angels chant from their books, antiphonally, in a minor recitative.

Well, he had been in dire need of the rest, and she had treated him with assorted minor medical aids including a restorative heat lamp, so that he really felt much better now.

General Pietro Badoglic, moved forward to Ambo Aradam, there were some minor brushes.

Dak had become a successful minor criminal, an autodidact and a self-made bore.

Wu more or less admitted that the Chi is similar to terrestrial bacteria, it is odd that a mammalian paramyxovirus rather than a bacteriophage was chosen, but Mariella dismisses it as a minor mystery, is more concerned with proving her hypothesis that, after infection, the Chi altered the virus.

Some poor wretch who extorted in a minor way, not an important fish like the governor of a province.

Hypothetical Syllogism is one that consists of a Hypothetical Major Premise, a Categorical Minor Premise, and a Categorical Conclusion.

Dilemma, then, is a compound Conditional Syllogism, having for its Major Premise two Hypothetical Propositions, and for its Minor Premise a Disjunctive Proposition, whose alternative terms either affirm the Antecedents or deny the Consequents of the two Hypothetical Propositions forming the Major Premise.

The Itekkillykx were a fractious litigious bunch, but the Gurns were the best managed of any on Rallen, high standards of courtesy and competence demanded of all, from the most minor clerks to the High Justicer herself.

Vaidro had traveled the length and breadth of Maske, and now lived like a minor magnate in an ancient hunting lodge, once the property of the Cimbar of the now-extinct Cimbar ilk.

She was merely the daughter of Sir Arthur Mandeville, however, minor nabob.

Although all he needed to taxi the craft were minor throttle adjustments and use of the rudder pedals, which directly controlled the nose-wheel, Manesh curled the fingers of his left hand around the control stick and thanked Allah and the engineers at Mikoyan-Gurevich for having designed such a long control column.

Signor Mantissa himself had been through them all, each booth was a permanent exhibit in memory of some time in his life when there had been a blond seamstress in Lyons, or an abortive plot to smuggle tobacco over the Pyrenees, or a minor assassination attempt in Belgrade.

No doubt, he being a minor, under strict control, did what he did as a mere schoolboy frolic, but this Margari and an unknown somebody else will find it not quite such a laughing matter.

Except for minor purposes, for convenience of pocket carriage and the like, Martialists disdain so poor a representation as a flat map can give of a broken surface.