minim Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters
  2. noun a United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram
  3. noun a musical note having the time value of half a whole note
    half note.

WordNet

Min"im noun
Etymology
F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.
Definitions
  1. Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.
  2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
  3. (Zoöl.) A small fish; a minnow. Prov. Eng.
  4. A little man or being; a dwarf. Obs. Milton.
  5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
  6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
  7. A short poetical encomium. Obs. Spenser.
Min"im adjective
Definitions
  1. Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.

Webster 1913