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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

minor

/(mī"nẽr)/ · mi·nor · IPA /ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/
01 a. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
  1. 1.
    Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
  2. 2.
    Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.(Mus.)
02 n. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, o…
  1. 1.
    A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
  2. 2.
    The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.(Logic)
  3. 3.
    A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.