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MINIM (adapted from Lat. minimus, the smallest; a superlative formed from the Indo-Germanic root min-, small)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 528 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MINIM (adapted from Lat. minimus, the smallest; a superlative formed from the Indo-Germanic root min-, small) , the smallest possible
part
  of a thing, a particle. In music the name " minim " (nota minima) was given by medieval musicians to a
note
  whose value was half a semibreve. It was, as its name implies, the
note
  of the shortest duration then in use. In
modern
  music several notes of lesser value, as the " crotchet " and " quaver," have been added, and the minim is now about half-way in the scale of " values." According to
Thomas
  Morley (A Plaine and Easie Introduction to
Practical
  Music, 1597), its introduction into
manuscript
  music is ascribed to Phillipus de Vitriaco, a musician of the 14th
century
 .
In
medicine
  a minim is the smallest fluid measure, being equal to one drop. Sixty minims make a fluid drachm.
For the religious Order known as " Minims " see FRANCIS OF PAOLA, ST.


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