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Micro vs Minor - What's the difference?

micro | minor |

As adjectives the difference between micro and minor

is that micro is small, relatively small; used to contrast levels of the noun modified while minor is of little significance or importance.

As nouns the difference between micro and minor

is that micro is form of microcomputer|lang=en while minor is a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.

As verbs the difference between micro and minor

is that micro is to micromanage while minor is to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

As proper nouns the difference between micro and minor

is that micro is a town in North Carolina while Minor is {{surname|lang=en}.

micro

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Small, relatively small; (used to contrast levels of the noun modified).
    • At the micro level he was a good manager. At the macro level he failed.
    Antonyms
    * macro

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing, dated)
  • * 1984 , Mike Gerrard, Bryan Skinner, Mr Chips comes home: micros and home education (page 23)
    • If you can possibly afford to spend a few more pounds then you should move up into the next price bracket, where the potential of the home micro starts to be realised.
  • * 1986 , Rachael Smith, Bomb Jack'' (video game review) in ''Your Sinclair issue 5, May 1986
    • So what sort of hero is this bounding, bomb collecting midget? The answer is an arcade hero - and now he's let loose in your micro courtesy of conversion kings, Elite.

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (-)
  • (lb) micromanagement

    • Verb

  • (lb) to micromanage
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    minor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * minour (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of little significance or importance.
    • 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.
  • (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
    • a minor scale.
  • (music) being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

    • Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Antonyms

    * major

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
    • It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen.
  • 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

    • Antonyms

    * (law) adult * major

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.

    • Anagrams

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