Minor
The term minor (from Latin "smaller, lesser") has several meanings:
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- Minor is a legal term for a young person, see Minor (law). Hence a younger brother or sister in British public school slang. The opposite is Major.
- In academia, especially in the United States, a minor is a secondary focus of a Bachelor's degree; the primary focus is a major.
- In mathematics:
- a minor of a square matrix is the determinant of a certain smaller matrix, see Minor (linear algebra)
- a minor of a graph is a certain smaller graph, see Minor (graph theory)
- Minor is a scale, chord, or interval in music, see Minor scale, minor chord, minor third, minor sixth, relative minor or major, parallel minor/major. As opposed to major.
- In English Change Ringing, Minor refers to a method rung on six church bells.
- The minors refers to the minor league, sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports, particularly minor league baseball.
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