minutia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
    — They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
  2. Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

词形变化

minutiae plural minutiæ obsolete,plural

词源

Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”). By surface analysis, minute + -ia.
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