different between minim vs hemidemisemiquaver

English

Etymology

French minime

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.n?m/

Noun

minim (plural minims)

1. (music) 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 ?L 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. (zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.
6. A little man or being; a dwarf.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost

     These as a line thir^[sic] long dimension drew,
     Streaking the ground with sinuous trace;
     not all Minims of Nature; some of Serpent kinde
     Wondrous in length and corpulence […]

7. A small fish; a minnow.
8. A short poetical encomium.

Translations

See also

• crotchet
• quaver
• semibreve

Anagrams

• minmi

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin minimus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?ni?m/
• Hyphenation: mi?nim

Adjective

minim (comparative minimer, superlative am minimsten)

1. (dated outside Switzerland) minimal

Declension

Synonyms

• minimal

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English minimum, French minime, German Minimum, Italian minimo, Russian ???????? (mínimum), Spanish mínimo. Regarded as a shortened form of minime.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi?nim/

Adverb

minim

1. least, lowest, minimum

   Antonym: maxim

Derived terms

• minimo (“minimum”)
• minima nombro (“quorum”)
• adminime (“at least, at the least”)

See also

• plu
• min

Ladin

Adjective

minim m (feminine singular minima, masculine plural minims, feminine plural minimes)

1. least
2. minimum

Romanian

Etymology

From French minime

Noun

minim f (plural minimi)

1. minimum

Declension

English

Etymology

hemi- +? demisemiquaver

Noun

hemidemisemiquaver (plural hemidemisemiquavers)

1. (music) A sixty-fourth note, drawn as a crotchet with four tails.

Related terms

• quaver
• semiquaver
• demisemiquaver

Translations

See also

• crotchet
• minim
• semibreve

Anagrams

• hemisemidemiquaver