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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL |
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MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser) , a word used both as an adjective and as a substantive for that which is less than or inferior to another, and often correlatively opposed to that to which " major " is applied in the same connotation
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Minor Friars," sometimes known as " Minorites," i.e. the name (fratres minores, lesser brothers
minor canons " are clergymen attached to a cathedral
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prophetical books of the Old Testament from Hosea to Malachi inclusive. (For the distinction in music between major and minor intervals, and for other applications of the correlative term
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In mathematics, the " minor of a determinant " is the determinant formed by erasing an equal number of the ro*s and columns of the original
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