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mi·nor  audio  (mnr) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:
  1. Lesser or smaller in amount, extent, or size.
  2. Lesser in importance, rank, or stature: a minor politician.
  3. Lesser in seriousness or danger: a minor injury.
  4. Law Being under legal age; not yet a legal adult.
  5. Chiefly British Relating to or being the younger or junior of two pupils with the same surname.
  6. Of or relating to a secondary area of academic specialization.
  7. Logic Dealing with a more restricted category.
  8. Music
    1. Relating to or being a minor scale.
    2. Less in distance by a half step than the corresponding major interval.
    3. Based on a minor scale: a minor key.
NOUN:
  1. One that is lesser in comparison with others of the same class.
  2. Law One who has not reached full legal age.
    1. A secondary area of specialized academic study, requiring fewer courses or credits than a major.
    2. One studying in a secondary area of specialization: She is a physics minor.
  4. Logic
    1. A minor premise.
    2. A minor term.
  5. Music A minor key, scale, or interval.
  6. minors Sports The minor leagues of a sport, especially baseball.
intr.v.
mi··nored, mi··nor·ing, mi··nors
To pursue academic studies in a minor field: minored in music.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Latin; see mei-2 in Indo-European roots


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