minor.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Underage, not having reached legal majority.

The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

She suffered a minor injury.

There was minor bruising.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.

The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.

Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.

The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.

The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Of or related to a minority party.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.

Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option Including both directed and undirected edges.

A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.

No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.

He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.

A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.

He plays in the minors.

She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.

Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.

A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

I got a minor in English Lit.

A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

I became an English minor.

A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.

Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.

Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).

Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).

Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.

Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).

Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.

Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

Changes rung on six bells.

An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

The younger brother of a pupil.

Short for graph minor.

Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.