Construct · 3 fields · 3 citations

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minor3 CONSTRUCTSMinor (Law)GARNER · LAWMinor (Music)LATHAM · MUSICMinor (Mathematics)HORN · MATHEMATICS

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Law

a person who has not yet reached the age of legal majority.

In law, minor refers to a person who has not yet reached the age of legal majority. This meaning comes from Garner (1999) in Black's Law Dictionary. Here minor is not the minor mode, a key built on a scale with a lowered third degree; nor the determinant of a square submatrix formed by deleting rows and columns.[1]

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Music

the minor mode, a key built on a scale with a lowered third degree.

In music, minor refers to the minor mode, a key built on a scale with a lowered third degree. This meaning comes from Latham (2002) in The Oxford companion to music. Here minor is not a person who has not yet reached the age of legal majority; nor the determinant of a square submatrix formed by deleting rows and columns.[2]

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Mathematics

the determinant of a square submatrix formed by deleting rows and columns.

In mathematics, minor refers to the determinant of a square submatrix formed by deleting rows and columns. This meaning comes from Horn (2012) in Matrix Analysis. Here minor is not a person who has not yet reached the age of legal majority; nor the minor mode, a key built on a scale with a lowered third degree.[3]

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References

  1. Garner, B. A. (Ed.). (1999). Black's law dictionary (7th ed.). West Group. ISBN 9780314228642
  2. Latham, A. (2002). The Oxford companion to music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198662129
  3. Horn, R. A., & Johnson, C. R. (2012). Matrix Analysis. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139020411

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