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minutiæ

minutiæ is the plural of minutia.

Meaning of minutia

Noun

minutia (plural minutiae or (obsolete) minutiæ)

  1. A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
    • They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
  2. (forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

Forms of minutiæ

alternative formminutiae

Questions about minutiæ

What is minutiæ the plural of?
Minutiæ is the plural of minutia.

Words near minutiæ in the dictionary

  1. minuting
  2. minutiose
  3. minutious
  4. minutiously
  5. minutissimic
  6. minutiæ
  7. minverite
  8. Minworth
  9. minx
  10. minxed
  11. minxes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: minutiæ (page history and authors); minutia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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