Minim

Quick meaning: Minim is a noun meaning (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

Meaning

(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

More Meanings

1. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
2. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
3. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
4. A little man or being; a dwarf.
5. A small fish; a minnow.
6. A short poetical encomium.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

the minims of existence

To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.

These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

Word Forms

• minims
• minom

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include arba, semiminim, breve, semibrief, demisemiquaver, semidemiquaver.

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