minor

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

   of minor importance

   a minor poet

   of lesser seriousness or danger

2. 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.

   not of legal age

3. (переносно, иногда)Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.

   She suffered a minor injury.

   There was minor bruising.

4. 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.

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5. 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.

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   мино́рныйminórnyj

6. (Канада, США)Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.

   The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.

7. Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.

8. 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.

9. (Британия, устаревшее)The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.

   of the younger of two boys with the same family name

10. (историческое)Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.

11. (историческое)Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.

12. Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.

1. The bus driver suffered minor injuries.

   Водитель автобуса получил лёгкие ранения.

   deDer Chauffeur des Busses wurde leicht verletzt.

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2. It's not just a minor problem.

   Это не просто какая-то второстепенная проблема.

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3. Tom isn't a minor, is he?

   Том ведь не несовершеннолетний?

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4. He is nothing but a minor artist.

   Он, кроме заштатного артиста, ничего из себя не представляет.

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5. I didn't know Tom was a minor.

   Я не знал, что Том несовершеннолетний.

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