minim

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. 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.
    — He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    — the minims of existence
  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
    — These as a line thir^([sic]) long dimension drew, Streaking the ground with sinuous trace; not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.
    — To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

词形变化

minims plural minom alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
minim confusion minimometer minim rest semiminim
相关词
crotchet quaver semibreve

词源

Etymology tree
French minimebor.
English minim
Borrowed from French minime.
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