Associations to the word «Minutia»

Wiktionary

MINUTIA, noun. A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
MINUTIA, noun. (biometrics) (forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared.

Dictionary definition

MINUTIA, noun. A small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope