minim

Meanings

1. A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, ¹⁄₆₀ fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3. A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
5. The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

1. A member of a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Saint Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.

Etymology

From French minime.