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Minutia

Definition: Minutia

Minutia

Noun

1. A small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "minutia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references)


Crosswords: Minutia

English words defined with "minutia": Minutiae. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Minutia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

minutia

4

groupe minutia

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Minutia

Language Translations for "minutia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

细节 (Detail, details, Minutiae). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

マトリックス力学 (enthusiasm, enthusiast, madeleine, mademoiselle, madonna, Madras, Madras check, Madrid, madrigal, mania, maniac, manicure, manierisme, manifesto, Manila, manipulate, manipulation, manipulator, Manitoba, manners, mannish, mannish look, manual, manual manipulator, manufacture, manuscript, matrix dynamics, muddler, mutton, sailor). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マニューシャ . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inutiamay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Minutia

Derivations

Words beginning with "minutia": minutiae, minutial. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Minutia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: makuti, mangurian, Manushi, manutia, matutina, miluji, minipig, Mintaka, minucha, Minuit, minusha, minut, minuta, minutae, minutea, minuti, minutiea, minutier, minutio, minuty, monbusho. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Minutia"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "minutia" (pronounced munuw"shēu)
7m u n uw" sh ē uminutiae.
3-sh ē ucassia, dementia, Quassia.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Minutia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-n-t-u"

-1 letter: intima, manitu.

-2 letters: animi, matin.

-3 letters: amin, anti, aunt, inia, inti, main, maun, maut, mina, mini, mint, muni, tain, tuna, unai, unit.

-4 letters: aim, ain, ait, ami, amu, ani, ant, man, mat, mun, mut, nam, nim, nit, nut, tam, tan, tau, tin, tui, tun, uta.

-5 letters: ai, am, an, at, in, it, ma, mi, mu.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-m-n-t-u"
 

+1 letter: actinium, minutiae, minutial, titanium.

 

+2 letters: actiniums, miniature, titaniums, unanimity.

 

+3 letters: ammunition, coatimundi, equanimity, fumigating, fumigation, humanistic, humanities, illuminant, illuminate, illuminati, impuissant, imputation, inhumanity, inhumation, manicurist, miniatures, multichain, multigrain, mutilating, mutilation, numismatic, puritanism, ruminating, rumination, ruminative, sanitarium, sanitorium, simulating, simulation, ultimating, unmilitary, utopianism.

 

+4 letters: ammunitions, antheridium, antidumping, antimusical, antirrhinum, coatimundis, culminating, culmination, fulminating, fulmination, fumigations, humiliating, humiliation, illuminants, illuminated, illuminates, illuminator, imputations, inhumations, latifundium, manicurists, manumitting, masculinist, masculinity, mediastinum, micturating, miniaturist, miniaturize, multidomain, multigrains, multination, multinomial, mundanities, mutilations, mutualizing, numismatics, numismatist, puritanisms, ruminations, sanitariums, sanitoriums, simulations, staminodium, stimulating, stimulation, sublimating, sublimation, thingumajig, unambitious, unanimities, uncinematic, unidiomatic, unmitigated, utopianisms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Minutia


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 6E 75 74 69 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    -.    ..-    -    ..    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01101110 01110101 01110100 01101001 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#110 &#117 &#116 &#105 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 006E 0075 0074 0069 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47758087867567

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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