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Meaning Of Minor
a.
Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller;
of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
a.
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a
minor third.
n.
A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which
full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United
States, one under twenty-one years of age.
n.
The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion;
also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor
term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the
second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every
act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by
gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from
another by gaming partakes of meanness.