Minor
Encyclopedia
Minor means "not important", and in Latin "smaller". It may also refer to:
  • an underage child, see Minor (law)
    Minor (law)
    In law, a minor is a person under a certain age — the age of majority — which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood; the age depends upon jurisdiction and application, but is typically 18...

  • Academic minor
    Academic minor
    An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary field of study or specialization during his or her undergraduate studies. As with an academic major, the college or university in question lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to...

    , a secondary focus of a Bachelor's degree, the primary focus being an academic major

Mathematics

  • Minor (linear algebra)
    Minor (linear algebra)
    In linear algebra, a minor of a matrix A is the determinant of some smaller square matrix, cut down from A by removing one or more of its rows or columns...

    , for a given matrix, a minor is the determinant of a certain submatrix
  • Minor (graph theory)
    Minor (graph theory)
    In graph theory, an undirected graph H is called a minor of the graph G if H is isomorphic to a graph that can be obtained by zero or more edge contractions on a subgraph of G....

    , a graph can be called a minor of another the graph given certain conditions

Surname

  • Dan Minor
    Dan Minor
    Dan "Slamfoot" Minor was an American jazz trombonist who featured in the bands of Count Basie, Cab Calloway and many others from the 1920s to the 1940s.-Life and career:...

    , American jazz trombonist
  • Kyle Minor
    Kyle Minor
    Kyle Minor is an American writer. Born and raised in West Palm Beach, Florida, Minor lived in Indiana and Kentucky before settling in Columbus, Ohio...

    , American writer
  • William Chester Minor
    William Chester Minor
    William Chester Minor, also known as W. C. Minor was an American army surgeon who, later, was one of the largest contributors of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary...

    , 19th century American contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
    • Agrippina Minor, mother of Emperor Nero, named after her mother Agrippina the Elder
    • Antonia Minor
      Antonia Minor
      Antonia Minor , also known as Antonia the Younger or simply Antonia was the younger of two daughters of Roman politician Mark Antony and Octavia Minor. Tacitus Ann. 4.44.2 and 12.54.2 may have confused the two Antonia sisters...

      , daughter of Mark Antony, named after her older sister Antonia Major
    • Octavia Minor
      Octavia Minor
      Octavia the Younger , also known as Octavia Minor or simply Octavia, was the sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus , half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and fourth wife of Mark Antony...

      , wife of Mark Antony and sister of Emperor Augustus, named after her sister Octavia Major

Sports

  • Minor league
    Minor league
    Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in...

    s, sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues
    • Minor league baseball
      Minor league baseball
      Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball and provide opportunities for player development. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses...

      , North American professional baseball leagues that compete at a level below that of Major League
  • Penalty (ice hockey)
    Penalty (ice hockey)
    A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,...


Vehicles

  • Morris Minor
    Morris Minor
    The Morris Minor was a British economy car that debuted at the Earls Court Motor Show, London, on 20 September 1948. Designed under the leadership of Alec Issigonis, more than 1.3 million were manufactured between 1948 and 1971...

    , a classic British post-war car design
  • Jawa Minor and Aero Minor
    Aero Minor
    The Aero Minor was a Czech automobile made from 1946 to 1952. It was designed by Jawa Motors engineers who had worked on it secretly during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. who worked from the Jawa Minor design. It sported a 2-cylinder, 2-stroke engine sized 615cc and front wheel drive. The...

    , classic Czech car models developed and produced by Jawa Motors
    Jawa Motors
    Jawa is a motorcycle manufacturer in the Czech republic, formerly Czechoslovakia. The name was created after its founder, Frantisek Janecek, bought the motorcycle division of Wanderer in 1929 , by concatenating the first letters of Janeček and Wanderer...

     between 1933 and 1951

Geography

Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...

, a term used often to refer to Anatolia, the westernmost region of Asia, most of which is in comprised by the nation of Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

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Arts and culture

  • Minor Theater
    Minor theater
    The Minor Theater, located at 1015 H Street in Arcata, California, is one of the oldest buildings in the United States built for feature films that is still open and showing movies. It was the first building in Humboldt County to be built as a "true movie theater."- History :The theater was built...

    , an original 1913 feature movie theater building still functioning as a theater in Arcata, California
  • Fort Minor
    Fort Minor
    Fort Minor is a hip hop side-project of Mike Shinoda, who is better known as being a member of the American rock band Linkin Park. Shinoda's debut solo album as Fort Minor, The Rising Tied was released November 22, 2005.-History:...

    , a hip-hop side-project of Mike Shinoda

Biology

Minor is a common specific epithet
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