MINOR

Minor

In law, a minor is a person under a certain age—usually the age of majority—which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood. The age depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is generally 18. Minor may also be used in contexts unconnected to the overall age of majority. For example, the drinking age in the United States is 21, and people below this age are sometimes called minors even if 18. The term underage often refers to those under the age of majority, but may also refer to persons under a certain age limit, such as the drinking age, smoking age, age of consent, marriageable age, driving age, voting age, etc. These age limits ...

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minor

Noun

  1. A person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability.
    It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
  2. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  3. determinant of a square submatrix

Verb

  1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

Adjective

  1. Of little significance or importance.
    The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
  2. Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
    a minor scale.
  3. being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number


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