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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