minor

B1
Pronunciation
/ˈmaɪnɚ/
Noun
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

Example Sentences
  • It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
2 Definition

A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

Example Sentences
  • I became an English minor.
3 Definition

Determinant of a square submatrix

4 Definition

(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).

5 Definition

A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

6 Definition

The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

7 Definition

(campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

Verb
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

Example Sentences
  • I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
Adjective
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

Of little significance or importance.

Example Sentences
  • The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
2 Definition

Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

Example Sentences
  • a minor scale
3 Definition

Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number