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What does minor mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word minor? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of little significance or importance.
  2. (music) Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
  3. (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
Noun
  1. A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
  2. (mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
  3. (British slang, dated) A younger brother (especially at a public school).
  4. (zoology) A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
Verb
  1. To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
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