Word Finder - minor

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A person who is below the age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

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It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.

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A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.

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I became an English minor.

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Determinant of a square submatrix

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(British slang) A younger brother (especially at a public school).

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A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

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The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

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(campanology) Bell changes rung on six bells.

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To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

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I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.

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Of little significance or importance.

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The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.

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Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered

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a minor scale

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Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number