Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A Middle English form of mine.
  • Less.
  • noun Memory; remembrance.
  • noun Mother.
  • To bring to the mind of; remind.
  • To remember.
  • To mention.
  • noun A dialectal or affected form of man.
  • noun An abbreviation of mineralogy, mineralogical, minimum, minute, minim, and minor.
  • An abbreviation of minister.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An abbreviation for minute, a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour.
  • proper noun a dialect of Chinese.
  • proper noun an Egyptian god of procreation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun mathematics minimum function
  • abbreviation Alternative form of min..
  • adjective Scotland Less.
  • noun obsolete Memory; remembrance.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To bring to the mind of; remind.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To remember.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To mention.
  • noun minimum.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
  • noun an Egyptian god of procreation
  • noun any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

Etymologies

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From minute.

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From Middle English, from Old English min ("less", also "small, mean, evil, vile, harmful"), from Proto-Germanic *minniz (“less”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Scots min ("less, lesser"), West Frisian min ("small, bad"), Dutch min ("less, small"), Low German minn ("small, low, lean"), German minder ("less"), Icelandic minna ("less"), Latin minus ("less").

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From Middle English, from Old Norse minni ("memory"), from Proto-Germanic *minþijan (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Icelandic minni ("memory"), German Minne ("love"). More at mine.

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From Middle English minnen, mynnen, from Old Norse minna ("to bring to mind"), from minni ("memory"). See above.

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Abbreviation of minimum.

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Examples

  • Yü-ts'un clapped his hands and said smiling, "It's so, I know! for this female pupil of mine, whose name is Tai-yü, invariably pronounces the character _min_ as _mi_, whenever she comes across it in the course of her reading; while, in writing, when she comes to the character 'min,' she likewise reduces the strokes by one, sometimes by two.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • NIH min is slightly under $37K for a 1st-year postdoc right now.

    Show Me the Money Candid Engineer 2008

  • Some of them are pretty damn funny. 10 min is a little long though.

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  • If you're speaking with a man and want to ask him where he's from, you use the phrase min ` ayna ` anta (min ay-na ann-ta).

    Arabic for Dummies Bouchentouf, Amine 2006

  • For the most part, they are filled chock full of a pack of miserable toadies to the governmint, which manages to gather into them a pack of rottin, ladin Irishmin who can make speeches, dhrink

    Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Scian Dubh 1855

  • When you call the min () method on a collection of numbers, the caller thread will create an accumulator or so-far-the-smallest-value initialized to the minimum value of the given type, let say to zero.

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  • In his eleventh year, he not only published a learned letter in Latin, but translated the travels of Rabbi Benja - min from the Hebrew into French, which ne illustrated with notes, and accompanied with dissertations; a work in which his father, as he himself declares, could give him little assistance, as he did not understand the Rab - binical dialect.

    Lives of eminent characters 1812

  • wv minfun= in Afrikaans min=little/few. this was definitely "min" fun!

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  • You can use to layout the GeekTool info =) One with the menubar in min and one without.

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  • To quantify the effects of ionizing radiation and other forms of electromagnetic radiation on the electron transfer properties of melanin “we irradiated dry C. neoformans melanin for 20 and 40 min with 14 Gy/min from a 137Cs source and measured its electron transfer properties in the coupled oxidation of NADH and reduction of ferricyanide.

    Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation 2008

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