Meaning

8 senses
  1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

    halbe Note

    полови́нная но́таpolovínnaja nóta

    a musical note having the time value of half a whole note

  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.

  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

    the minims of existence

  5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.

  7. A small fish; a minnow.

  8. A short poetical encomium.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. His odes shall be read with minim, or crochet, or quaver rests.

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
half note:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
half note:

Origin

Borrowed from French minime.

Borrowed from French minime.

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Forms

plural: minims

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a musical note having the time value of half a whole note:half note

Word family

7 related words

See also

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