/ˈmɪ.nɪm/
OriginFrom French minime.
- A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
- 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.
“He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.”
- A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
- Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
“the minims of existence”
- The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
- A little man or being; a dwarf.
“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 […]”
- A small fish; a minnow.
- A short poetical encomium.
“To make one minim of thy poor handmaid”
- A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
Formsminims(plural) · minom(alternative) · Minims(plural) · Minimi(plural)