| 单词 | minor |
| 释义 | Word Frequency minor(ˈmaɪnə) adjective 1. lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree a minor poet minor burns 2. of or relating to the minority 3. below the age of legal majority 4. music a. (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees (natural minor) See also harmonic minor scale, melodic minor scale b. (of a key) based on the minor scale c. (postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale C minor d. (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major e. (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root f. (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh a minor ninth See also minor key, minor mode 5. logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition 6. US education of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student 7. (immediately postpositive) British the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school Hunt minor 8. (postpositive) bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells grandsire minor noun 9. a person or thing that is lesser or secondary 10. a person below the age of legal majority 11. US and Canadian education a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major 12. music a minor key, chord, mode, or scale 13. logic a minor term or premise 14. mathematics a. a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removingthe row and column containing that element b. Also called: cofactor, signed minor the number equal to this reduced determinant 15. (capital) another name for Minorite verb Compare major 16. (intransitive; usually foll by in) US education to take a minor Word origin C13: from Latin: less, smaller; related to Old High German minniro smaller, Gothic minniza least, Latin minuere to diminish, Greek meiōn less |
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