minim

n.

1. (Abbr. M. or min.) A unit of fluid measure, as:
   1. In the United States, ¹/₆₀ of a fluid dram (0.0616 milliliters).
   2. In Great Britain, ¹/₂₀ of a scruple (0.0592 milliliters).
2. Music. A half note.
3. An insignificantly small portion or thing.
4. A downward vertical stroke in handwriting.

[Middle English, half note, from Medieval Latin minimus, least, from Latin.]

noun

A tiny amount: bit¹, crumb, dab¹, dash, dot, dram, drop, fragment, grain, iota, jot, mite, modicum, molecule, ort, ounce, particle, scrap¹, scruple, shred, smidgen, speck, tittle, trifle, whit. Chiefly British spot. See big/small/amount.

(min'im)
n

A unit of volume in the traditional apothecary system. One minim equals 0.06 ml. A drop is sometimes used as a crude approximation of the minim.

[Etymology: Lat: ‘least’] volume BI, USA For apothecaries, ¹/₆₀ fluid drachm.

BI 59.193 9~ μL. Removed from official UK measures in 1970.The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade the bushell, cental, chain, drachm, dram, fluid drachm, furlong, grain, hundredweight, ounce apoth., peck, pennyweight, quarter, quintal, rood, scruple, stone, ton, the square mile, cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic yard, and the term ‘metric ton’. However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970. Besides the remaining BI units and the simple SI units, the Act included the kilometre, decimetre, centimetre and millimetre, the square metre, square decimetre, square centimetre and square millimetre, the hectare and decare along with the are, the cubic metre, cubic decimetre and cubic centimetre, the hectolitre decilitre, centilitre and millilitre, the tonne (or ‘metric tonne’), kilogram, hectogram, milligram and carat (metric). All had been included in the similar Act of 1963, but with some variation of name: -gram was -gramme, decare was dekare, the tonne appeared only as metric ton.

US-C Solely for liquids, 61.611 5~ μL.

The note, in American usage called a half-note, that is half the value of a semibreve/whole-note and double the value of a crotchet/quarter-note. The shortest of the five note values of early medieval music (hence its name), it is first found in early 14th-century music. See Note values.

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("sectarians"; sing. min). Term used widely by the rabbis to denote various Jewish sectarian groups such as the Sadducees and Boethusians, samaritans, and Nazarenes (Judeo-Christians or Ebionites). In rabbinic literature, min is often closely associated with Epikoros or kofer---one who derides the sages and their teachings, rejects their authority, and openly flouts the Oral Law. "Apostates [minim], informers, and epikorsim who repudiate the Torah, deny that there will be a resurrection of the dead, and separate themselves from the ways of the community" are doomed to perdition (RH 17a). No fewer than two dozen sects could be identified in 70 CE, when the Temple was destroyed (TJ, Sanh. 10.6), and their presence within the Jewish camp, undermining national morale, was increasingly regarded as a threat to Judaism. The practice of reciting the Ten Commandments each morning in the synagogue was discontinued in response to assertions by the minim (Judeo-Christians) that the Decalogue alone had binding religious force (Ber. 12a). Finally, around 80-90 CE, an imprecation against apostates and heretics whose slanders had become intolerable was added to the weekday Amidah (see Birkat Ha-Minim). This chiefly had the effect of removing Judeo-Christians from the synagogue and of converting them from a heterodox Jewish fellowship into a sect persecuted and ultimately destroyed by the Gentile Church. Subsequently, during the early talmudic period, min invariably designated pagan philosophers, Gnostics, or (Gentile) Christians. By the Middle Ages, it had become synonymous with Atheism or Idolatry. See also Apostasy and Heresy.

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[Ar]

Type of small Roman coin of low value that first appeared in the 3rd century ad and continued to be minted through into the 4th century ad. The word is simply a Latinized equivalent of ‘the smallest’; it is not known what the coins were called in Roman times.

A unit of volume (liquid measure) in the apothecaries’ system, equivalent to 0.0616 ml.

To convert from minims (British) to:

cubic cm, multiply by .059192.
cubic cm, multiply by .061612.

Convert:  Into:  cubic cm cubic cm

Result:

Related measurements:
minims (British)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - halvnode (mus.), dråbe (mindste væskemål), lille/mindste del, nedstreg (i kalligrafi)

Nederlands (Dutch)
halve noot, kleinigheid, 0, 06 milliliter, miniem

Français (French)
n. - (Mus, GB) blanche, (Mes) goutte

Deutsch (German)
n. - halbe Note

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εξηκοστό του δραμίου

Italiano (Italian)
minima (musica), goccia (farm. =0,059 ml)

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mínima (f) (Mús.), partícula mínima (f) (Farm.)

Русский (Russian)
мельчайшая частица, безделица, половинная нота, мельчайший

Español (Spanish)
n. - blanca (mús.), mínimo, pigmeo, palo, trazo, pizca

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - halvnot, nedstreck, (minsta mått för våtvaror) (ung.) droppe

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
液量单位, 微量, 一滴

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 液量單位, 微量, 一滴

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 미세한 것 , 시시한 사람

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ミニム, 二分音符

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) صغير, ضئيل, قطرة, علامه موسيقيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חצי תו (במוסיקה), משיכת קולמוס אחת, אחד חלקי שישים מדרכמה נוזלית (כטיפה אחת נוזלית), דבר או חלק שגודלם או חשיבותם מזערית‬

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