
[Middle English, half note, from Medieval Latin minimus, least, from Latin.]
[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 However, the legal status of the bushell, fluid drachm, and peck had been repealed, along with all apothecaries' units and troy units other than ounce, by Order in 1970.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.
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.
To convert from minims (British) to:
cubic cm,
multiply by .059192.
cubic cm,
multiply by .061612.
Related measurements:
A unit of volume (liquid measure) in the apothecaries’ system, equivalent to 0.0616 ml.
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.

Minim may refer to:
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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
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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