minim

noun

• 1 Music, British a note having the time value of two crotchets or half a semibreve, represented by a ring with a stem. Also called half note.

• 2a small bronze or silver ancient Roman coin.

• 3one sixtieth of a fluid drachm, about one drop of liquid.

• 4(in calligraphy) a short vertical stroke, as in the letters i, m, n, u.