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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly:
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(law) 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.
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A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
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(music) Ellipsis of minor interval, scale, mode, key, chord, triad, etc.
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(Canada, US, education) A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
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(Canada, US, education, uncommon) A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
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(mathematics) A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
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(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
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(logic) Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
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(baseball) Ellipsis of minor league: the lower level of teams.
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(ice hockey) Ellipsis of minor penalty: a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores.
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(Australian football) Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
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(rugby, historical) Ellipsis of minor point: a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions.
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(bridge) Ellipsis of minor suit; a card of a minor suit.
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(entomology) Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
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(entomology) A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
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(campanology) Changes rung on six bells.
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(Scots law, obsolete) An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
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(mathematics, rare, obsolete) Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
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(UK, rare, obsolete) The younger brother of a pupil.
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(graph theory) Short for graph minor.
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Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.