minim
UK /ˈmɪ.nɪm/ US /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
noun 6
Definitions
noun
1
A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2
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.
3
A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4
Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
the minims of existence
5
The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
noun
1
A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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