minim

Plural: minims

Noun

• A unit of liquid measure, equal to about one drop.
• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
• a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
• a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
• A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
• 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.
• A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
• Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
• The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
• A little man or being; a dwarf.
• A small fish; a minnow.
• A short poetical encomium.

Examples

• Every MINIM of thought went into finding the perfect triple word score.
• the minims of existence

Synonyms

half note

Related Words

crotchet, quaver, semibreve