Definition of "minor"
- adjective
Of little significance or importance.
Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered.
Being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number.
- noun
A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
Determinant of a square submatrix.
- verb
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
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