minim

A unit of fluid measure, as.

In the United States, ¹/₆₀ of a fluid dram (0.0616 milliliter).

In Great Britain, ¹/₂₀ of a scruple (0.0592 milliliter).

A half note.

An insignificantly small portion or thing.

A downward vertical stroke in handwriting.

Very small; diminutive; pygmy.

A very diminutive man or being.

[capitalized] One of an order of monks, founded in the middle of the fifteenth century by St. Francis of Paola, confirmed by Pope Sixtus IV., and again confirmed by Pope Alexander VI. under the name of “Ordo Minimorum Ere-mitarum s. Francisci de Paula” (order of the least hermits of St. Francis of Paola).

In musical notation, a note equivalent in timevalue to one half of a semibreve: it is now also called a half-note, but in early medieval music it was the shortest note used. Also minima.—