minor

/ˈmaɪnɚ/ · noun

Meaning

A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
Determinant of a square submatrix
(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
Of little significance or importance.
Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

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