minor

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[edit] Etymology

From Latin minor

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minor

  1. of little significance or importance.
  2. (music): Of a musical scale in which some notes are sounded flat.

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[edit] Noun

Singular
minor

Plural
minors

minor (plural minors)

  1. A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
  2. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
    • I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor.
    • I became an English minor.
  3. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix

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Infinitive
to minor

Third person singular
minors

Simple past
minored

Past participle
minored

Present participle
minoring

to minor (third-person singular simple present minors, present participle minoring, simple past and past participle minored)

  1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
    • I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

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minor comparative, m./f. sing., third declension (positive: parvus, superlative: minimus)

  1. comparative of parvus; lesser, inferior, smaller.

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present active minor, present infinitive minārī, perfect active minātus sum. (deponent)

  1. I jut forth, protrude, project.
  2. I threaten, menace someone with something.

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