'Minim' definitions:
Definition of 'minim'
(from WordNet)
noun
A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
noun
A United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
noun
A musical note having the time value of half a whole note [syn: half note, minim]
Definition of 'Minim'
From: GCIDE
- Minim \Min"im\, a. Minute. "Minim forms." --J. R. Drake. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Minim'
From: GCIDE
- Minim \Min"im\, n. [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161 milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British measure). [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 3. (Zool.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'minim'
From: GCIDE
- Minnow \Min"now\, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written also minow.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Zool.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'minim'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidental,
- ace,
- atom,
- bit,
- breve,
- breve rest,
- crotchet,
- crumb,
- dab,
- demisemiquaver,
- dole,
- dominant,
- dominant note,
- dot,
- double whole note,
- dram,
- dribble,
- driblet,
- drop,
- droplet,
- dwarf,
- eighth note,
- eighth rest,
- enharmonic,
- enharmonic note,
- farthing,
- flat,
- fleck,
- flyspeck,
- fragment,
- gnat,
- gobbet,
- grain,
- granule,
- groat,
- hair,
- half note,
- half rest,
- handful,
- hemidemisemiquaver,
- iota,
- jot,
- little,
- little bit,
- lota,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midge,
- minimum,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- mite,
- modicum,
- molecule,
- mote,
- musical note,
- natural,
- note,
- nutshell,
- ounce,
- particle,
- patent note,
- pause,
- pebble,
- pinch,
- pinhead,
- pinpoint,
- pittance,
- point,
- quarter note,
- quarter rest,
- quaver,
- report,
- responding note,
- rest,
- scrap,
- scruple,
- semibreve,
- semiquaver,
- shaped note,
- sharp,
- sixteenth note,
- sixteenth rest,
- sixty-fourth note,
- smidgen,
- smitch,
- snip,
- snippet,
- speck,
- spiccato,
- spoonful,
- spot,
- staccato,
- sustained note,
- tercet,
- thimbleful,
- thirty-second note,
- tiny bit,
- tittle,
- tone,
- trifling amount,
- triplet,
- trivia,
- vanishing point,
- whit,
- whole note