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单词 minim
释义

minim

See also: Minim, mínim, and míním

English

Musical notation for a minim note.

Alternative forms

  • minom (archaic)

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɪ.nɪm/
    • Audio (UK)(file)

Noun

minim (plural minims)

  1. (music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
  2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1⁄60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
    • 1886, Robert Louis Stephenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:
      He thanked me with a smiling nod, measured out a few minims of the red tincture and added one of the powders.
  3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
  4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
    the minims of existence
  5. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
  6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
      These as a line thir[sic] long dimension drew,
      Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
      not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
      Wondrous in length and corpulence […]
  7. A small fish; a minnow.
  8. A short poetical encomium.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      To make one minim of thy poor handmaid

Translations

small fish — see minnow

See also

  • crotchet
  • quaver
  • semibreve

Anagrams

  • minmi

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈniːm/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mi‧nim

Adjective

minim (strong nominative masculine singular minimer, comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

  1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal
    Synonym: minimal

Declension

Positive forms of minim
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist minimsie ist minimes ist minimsie sind minim
strong declension
(without article)		nominativeminimerminimeminimesminime
genitiveminimenminimerminimenminimer
dativeminimemminimerminimemminimen
accusativeminimenminimeminimesminime
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder minimedie minimedas minimedie minimen
genitivedes minimender minimendes minimender minimen
dativedem minimender minimendem minimenden minimen
accusativeden minimendie minimedas minimedie minimen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein minimereine minimeein minimes(keine) minimen
genitiveeines minimeneiner minimeneines minimen(keiner) minimen
dativeeinem minimeneiner minimeneinem minimen(keinen) minimen
accusativeeinen minimeneine minimeein minimes(keine) minimen
Comparative forms of minim
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist minimersie ist minimeres ist minimersie sind minimer
strong declension
(without article)		nominativeminimererminimereminimeresminimere
genitiveminimerenminimererminimerenminimerer
dativeminimeremminimererminimeremminimeren
accusativeminimerenminimereminimeresminimere
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder minimeredie minimeredas minimeredie minimeren
genitivedes minimerender minimerendes minimerender minimeren
dativedem minimerender minimerendem minimerenden minimeren
accusativeden minimerendie minimeredas minimeredie minimeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein minimerereine minimereein minimeres(keine) minimeren
genitiveeines minimereneiner minimereneines minimeren(keiner) minimeren
dativeeinem minimereneiner minimereneinem minimeren(keinen) minimeren
accusativeeinen minimereneine minimereein minimeres(keine) minimeren
Superlative forms of minim
number & gendersingularplural
masculinefeminineneuterall genders
predicativeer ist am minimstensie ist am minimstenes ist am minimstensie sind am minimsten
strong declension
(without article)		nominativeminimsterminimsteminimstesminimste
genitiveminimstenminimsterminimstenminimster
dativeminimstemminimsterminimstemminimsten
accusativeminimstenminimsteminimstesminimste
weak declension
(with definite article)		nominativeder minimstedie minimstedas minimstedie minimsten
genitivedes minimstender minimstendes minimstender minimsten
dativedem minimstender minimstendem minimstenden minimsten
accusativeden minimstendie minimstedas minimstedie minimsten
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		nominativeein minimstereine minimsteein minimstes(keine) minimsten
genitiveeines minimsteneiner minimsteneines minimsten(keiner) minimsten
dativeeinem minimsteneiner minimsteneinem minimsten(keinen) minimsten
accusativeeinen minimsteneine minimsteein minimstes(keine) minimsten

Ido

Alternative forms

  • minme (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ми́нимум (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime. Decision no. 13, Progreso I.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miˈnim/

Adverb

minim

  1. least, lowest, minimum
    Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

  • minimo (“minimum”)
  • minima nombro (“quorum”)
  • adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

  • plu
  • min

References

  • Progreso I (in Ido), 1908–1909, page 9

Ladin

Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

  1. least
  2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

From French minime.

Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

  1. minimum

Declension

Declension of minim
singularplural
indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(o) minimmini(niște) minimiminimile
genitive/dative(unei) minimiminimii(unor) minimiminimilor
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