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lesser or secondary in amount, extent, importance, or degree

of or relating to the minority

below the age of legal majority

music

1. (of a scale) having a semitone between the second and third and fifth and sixth degrees ( natural minor ) See also harmonic minor scale melodic minor scale

2. (of a key) based on the minor scale

3. (postpositive) denoting a specified key based on the minor scale

   C minor

4. (of an interval) reduced by a semitone from the major

5. (of a chord, esp a triad) having a minor third above the root

6. (esp in jazz) of or relating to a chord built upon a minor triad and containing a minor seventh See also minor key minor mode

   a minor ninth

logic (of a term or premise) having less generality or scope than another term or proposition

education of or relating to an additional secondary subject taken by a student

(immediately postpositive) the younger or junior: sometimes used after the surname of a schoolboy if he has an older brother in the same school

(postpositive) Leisure:Bell-ringing of, relating to, or denoting a set of changes rung on six bells

a person or thing that is lesser or secondary

a person below the age of legal majority

education a subsidiary subject in which a college or university student needs fewer credits than in his or her major

music a minor key, chord, mode, or scale

logic a minor term or premise

maths

1. a determinant associated with a particular element of a given determinant and formed by removing the row and column containing that element

2. Also called: cofactor.�� signed minor.��the number equal to this reduced determinant

(capital) another name for Minorite