Incidental vs Minor - What's the difference?
incidental | minor |
Loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident.
Entering or approaching, prior to reflection (more frequently incident).
Of little significance or importance.
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(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
(music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
* I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor .
* I became an English minor .
(mathematics) determinant of a square submatrix
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
* I had so many credit hours of English, I decided to minor in it.
As an adjective incidental
is loosely associated; existing as a byproduct, tangent, or accident.As a noun incidental
is incidental expense.As a proper noun minor is
.incidental
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- That character, though colorful, is incidental to the overall plot.
Derived terms
* incidental expense * incidentallySynonyms
*(existing as an accident) accidental, contingentAntonyms
*(existing as an accident) inevitable, necessary, impossibleAnagrams
* ----minor
English
Alternative forms
* minour (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment.
- There is now such an immense "microliterature" on hepatics that, beyond a certain point I have given up trying to integrate (and evaluate) every minor paper published—especially narrowly floristic papers.
- a minor scale.
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoAntonyms
* majorNoun
(en noun)- It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.