minim

English

Musical notation for a minim note.

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. 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.

Translations

A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 二分音符

  Mandarin: 二分音符 (cmn)

• Finnish: puolinuotti (fi)
• French: minime (fr) m
• German: halbe Note (de) f
• Greek: ήμισυ (el) (ímisy) n

• Icelandic: hálfnóta (is) f
• Japanese: 二分音符 (ja) (nibun onpu)
• Portuguese: mínima (pt) f
• Russian: половинная нота (ru) (polovínnaja nóta) f
• Scottish Gaelic: punc geal (gd) m

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

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Adverb

minim

1. least

Antonyms

• maxim