minor

1. a. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body. Source: opted

2. a. Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Source: opted

3. 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, one under twenty-one years of age. Source: opted

4. n. 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. Source: opted

5. n. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar. Source: opted

6. adj. of lesser importance or stature or rank Source: wordnet

7. adj. lesser in scope or effect Source: wordnet

8. adj. inferior in number or size or amount Source: wordnet

9. adj. (of a scale or mode) having half steps between the second and third degrees, and (usually) the fifth and sixth degrees, and the seventh and eighth degrees Source: wordnet

10. adj. not of legal age Source: wordnet

11. adj. of lesser seriousness or danger Source: wordnet

12. adj. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization Source: wordnet

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