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minor 1. Law below the age of legal majority 2. Music a. (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor) b. (of a key) based on the minor scale c. denoting a specified key based on the minor scale d. (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major e. (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root f. (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh 3. Logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition 4. US education of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student 5. Bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells 6. a person below the age of legal majority 7. US and Canadian education a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major 8. Music a minor key, chord, mode, or scale 9. Logic a minor term or premise 10. Maths a. a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removing the row and column containing that element b. the number equal to this reduced determinant How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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It could hardly be denied, however, that the controversies left Summers Minor comparatively cold. Ultimately some of the minor spars did go - nothing important: spanker-booms and such-like - because at times the frightful impetus of her rolling would part a fourfold tackle of new three- inch Manilla line as if it were weaker than pack-thread. The "Spanish Student" became one of my passions; a minor passion, not a grand one, like 'Don Quixote' and the |
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