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Like the more common minimum, minim derives from the Latin word minimus, meaning "least" or "smallest." Musicians were the first to note its significance in the 15th century as a word for the half note. Chirographers soon adopted it as a word for a single downstroke in penmanship (such as any of the three in the letter m), and after careful analysis, apothecaries prescribed minim as a word for their smallest unit of liquid capacity. English speakers have also embraced minim as a general noun referring to things that are very small and as an adjective meaning "of the smallest size," as in "a minim amount."
Examples of minim in a Sentence
Hartford Courant, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2017
Related: Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself:
• Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.
—Valerie Lego, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2017
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Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself:
• Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.
—Valerie Lego, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2017
Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
—courant.com, 30 June 2017
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“Minim.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/minim. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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