minor

noun

A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
I became an English minor.
Determinant of a square submatrix
(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
(campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

verb

To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

adjective

Of little significance or importance.
The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
a minor scale
Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

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