Associations to the word «Minim»

MINIM, noun. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

MINIM, noun. 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.

MINIM, noun. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

MINIM, noun. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

MINIM, noun. A small fish; a minnow.

MINIM, noun. A little man or being; a dwarf.

MINIM, noun. A short poetical encomium.

MINIM, noun. A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

MINIM CONFUSION, noun. Confusion between similar letter sequences with minims (such as uu and nn) in old handwritten documents.

MINIM REST, noun. (music) A pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats.

MINIM REST, noun. (music) A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines.

MINIM RESTS, noun. Plural of minim rest

MINIM, noun. A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters.

MINIM, noun. A United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram.

MINIM, noun. A musical note having the time value of half a whole note.