minim
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
minim/ˈmɪnɪm/
▶noun
- 1 Music, Brit. a note having the time value of two crotchets or half a semibreve, represented by a ring with a stem.
- 2 a small bronze or silver ancient Roman coin.
- 3 one sixtieth of a fluid drachm, about one drop of liquid.
- 4 (in calligraphy) a short vertical stroke, as in the letters i, m, n, u.
– origin ME: from L. minima, from minimus ‘smallest’.
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