(a.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch
as, a minor third.
(n.) A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded
an infant
in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age.
(n.) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion
also, the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term
in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness
to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice
therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.