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MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 554 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
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
 . Among the numerous
special
  uses of the word the following may be mentioned: "
Minor
  Friars," sometimes known as " Minorites," i.e. the name (fratres minores, lesser
brothers
 ) given by St Francis to the order he founded (see FRANCISCANS); "
minor
  canons " are clergymen attached to a
cathedral
  or collegiate church who read and sing the daily service. In some cathedrals they are known as " vicars choral "; they are not members of the chapter. (For the distinction between holy and minor orders in Christian hierarchy see ORDERS.) The name " Minor Prophets " is used collectively of the twelve
MINOS
 
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
 , see Music and HARMONY.) In the categorical syllogism (q.v.) in logic, the minor
term
  is that term which forms the subject of the conclusion, the minor premiss is that which contains the minor term. In law, a " minor " is a person under legal age (see INFANT).
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
  determinant. If one column and row be erased there is formed the first minor; if two rows and columns the second minor, and so on. The minor
axis
  of a central conic section is the shorter of the two
principal
  axes; it may also be regarded as the line joining the two imaginary foci. In astronomy, the term minor planets is given to the members of the solar system which have their orbits between those of Mars and Jupiter (see PLANETS, MINOR).


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