MINOR

adj. lesser in size, small; secondary; subordinate; junior; under legal age; insignificant, unimportant; minor scale (Music); not serious (of an illness)

n. youth who is not of legal voting age; secondary area of study in a college degree

Minor means not important. It may also may refer to:MathematicsMinor (linear algebra), for a given matrix, its minor is the determinant of a certain smaller matrixMinor (graph theory),
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The River Miñor ( Río Miñor) is a river of Galicia, Spain.
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Noun
1. a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
(synonym) child, kid, youngster, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling
(hypernym) juvenile, juvenile person
(hyponym) bairn
(part-meronym) child's body
Adjective
1. of lesser importance or stature or rank; "a minor poet"; "had a minor part in the play"; "a minor official"; "many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"; "minor back roads"
(antonym) major
(similar) insignificant, peanut
2. lesser in scope or effect; "had minor differences"; "a minor disturbance"
(antonym) major
3. inferior in number or size or amount; "a minor share of the profits"; "Ursa Minor"
(antonym) major
(attribute) minority
4. of a scale or mode; "the minor keys"; "in B flat minor"
(antonym) major
(classification) music
5. not of legal age; "minor children"
(synonym) nonaged, underage
(antonym) major
(classification) law, jurisprudence
6. of lesser seriousness or danger; "suffered only minor injuries"; "some minor flooding"; "a minor tropical disturbance"
(antonym) major
7. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
(antonym) major
8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name; "Jones minor"
(synonym) minor(ip)
(similar) junior
(classification) United Kingdom, UK, Great Britain, GB, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
9. warranting only temporal punishment; "venial sin"
(synonym) venial
(similar) pardonable
(classification) theology, divinity
10. limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket-size country"
(synonym) modest, small, small-scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized
(similar) limited

adj. minor, minor scale (Music)

(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.
  

(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.)
A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.
  

(a.)
Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third.
  

(a.)
Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.