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You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
Chesley Sullenberger

Meaning of "minutia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MINUTIA

minutia  [mɪˈnjuːʃɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINUTIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Minutia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINUTIA


alopecia
ˌæləˈpiːʃɪə
Chuvashia
tʃuːˈvɑːʃɪə
endothecia
ˌendəʊˈθiːʃɪə
Lucretia
luːˈkriːʃɪə
marshier
ˈmɑːʃɪə
Mercia
ˈmɜːʃɪə
Renfrewshire
ˈrɛnfruːʃɪə
retia
ˈriːʃɪə
Rhaetia
ˈriːʃɪə
Seleucia
sɪˈluːʃɪə
silesia
saɪˈliːʃɪə
Yakutia
jæˈkuːʃɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINUTIA

minus quantity
minus sign
minuscular
minuscule
minute
minute book
minute gun
minute hand
minute mark
minute of arc
minute secretary
minute steak
minutely
Minuteman
Minutemen
minuteness
minutes
minutiae
minutial
minutiose

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINUTIA

Bastia
Boeotia
Buryatia
consortia
Croatia
dementia
Helvetia
hutia
inertia
militia
Nova Scotia
Ossetia
Ostia
periodontia
Placentia
poinsettia
scotia
Valentia
Venetia
yautia

Synonyms and antonyms of minutia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «minutia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINUTIA

Find out the translation of minutia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of minutia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «minutia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

细节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

minucias
570 millions of speakers

English

minutia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

minutia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التفاصيل التافهة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мелочах
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

minúcia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

minutia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

minutie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minutia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Minutien
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

特徴点
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

특징점
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minutia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

minutia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

minutia
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मिनिटिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

minutia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minuzia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minucja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дрібницях
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

punctelor caracteristice
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

minutia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

minutia
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

minutiae
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

minutia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of minutia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINUTIA»

The term «minutia» is quite widely used and occupies the 54.971 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINUTIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about minutia

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4 QUOTES WITH «MINUTIA»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word minutia.
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Gerry Beckley
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
2
Jeremy Northam
All the great novels, all the great films, all the great dramas are fictions that actually tell us the truth about us or about human nature or about human situations without being tied into the minutia of documentary events. Otherwise we might as well just make documentaries.
3
Chesley Sullenberger
You know, I think when people are in important positions in big organizations, they often get tied up with the minutia of managing money, managing things. They often forget that people deserve to be led.
4
Kiefer Sutherland
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINUTIA»

Discover the use of minutia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to minutia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Advances in Fingerprint Technology, Second Edition
minutia orientation results in regions with converging or diverging ridges. Thus, if the overall pattern of ridge flow is known, information is also available concerning the orientations and distribution of minutiae. This aspect of minutia distribution ...
Henry C. Lee, Robert Ramotowski, R. E. Gaensslen, 2001
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Biometrics for Network Security
Earlier in this chapter, the minutia of fingerprints were described. As such, vendors who choose to use minutia-based algorithms will need to provide the highest-quality image possible. This way, the most minutia will be preserved. In addition ...
Paul Reid, 2004
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Advances in Biometric Person Authentication: 5th Chinese ...
area whose centre is Mi ( Since the type feature of Mi, ending or bifurcate, which brings out error matching, we replace type feature of the minutia by its local grey variation. 5) ijij is the direction from Mi to Rij, one of sampled points on the ridge ...
S. Z. Li, 2004
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Biometric Authentication: International ECCV 2002 Workshop ...
However, fitting the function mxy(, ) to the data is a difficult optimization problem. Therefore, as a first attempt, we estimate the parameters h, α and β from data directly and then fit the minutia function. Least-squares estimates of the minutia ...
Massimo Tistarelli, Josef Bigün, Anil K. Jain, 2002
5
Information Assurance, Security and Privacy Services
Binarized fingerprint with candidate minutia positions. for minutia correspondences is affine (composed of rotation and translation). The brute force approach to minutia matching will look at all pairs of minutia in two fingerprints and assume that ...
H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu Upadhyaya, 2009
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Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer ...
Minutia-based fingerprint recognition represents the fingerprint by its local features like terminations and bifurcations. This approach is the backbone of many available fingerprint recognition products. There are two basic steps of minutia ...
Robert Burduk, Konrad Jackowski, Marek Kurzynski, 2013
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Control, Computation and Information Systems: First ...
Minutia points occur either at a ridge ending or a ridge bifurcation. A ridge ending is defined as the point where the ridge ends abruptly and the ridge bifurcation is the point where the ridge splits into two or more branches. A fingerprint expert is ...
P. Balasubramaniam, 2011
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Advances in Digital Image Processing and Information ...
Minutia points occur either at a ridge ending or a ridge bifurcation. A ridge ending is defined as the point where the ridge ends abruptly and the ridge bifurcation is the point where the ridge splits into two or more branches. A fingerprint expert is ...
Dhinaharan Nagamalai, Eric Renault, Murugan Dhanuskodi, 2011
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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
(2000) who first encoded the relationship between a minutia and its neighboring minutiae in term of invariant distances and angles and proposed global consolidation; (iii) the plethora of variants and evolutions of Jiang and Yau (2000) and ...
Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, 2009
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Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication: ... ...
Image imperfections can also generate errors in determining the coordinates of each true minutia and its relative orientation in the image. All these facts make remarkable decrease of the recognition system reliability, since fingerprint ...
Josef Bigun, Fabrizio Smeraldi, 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINUTIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term minutia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Survey of Golden Valley officials reveals tension in the ranks …
“This Council is mucking around in the minutia [sic] of day-to-day operations, getting in the way of the City Manager and staff doing their jobs ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
2
MLB Power Rankings: Pujols and Trout powering Angels - NY Daily …
13): Minutia Department: No pitching staff has thrown more wild pitches than the Rays' 48. 17. Cleveland Indians (44-47, last week No. «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
3
Make School Wants To Build The Product University For The …
Desai dropped out of UCLA's CS curriculum after one year, finding the teaching hopelessly bogged down by theoretical minutia. “Everything I ... «TechCrunch, Jul 15»
4
Pegg: Star Trek Wikipedia clarifies all - Film-News.co.uk
... there it is online, because there are so many dedicated fans out there who have such a vast knowledge of the universe and the minutia of it." «Film News, Jul 15»
5
Small gestures of love: How to tell if your relationship will last
I'm not suggesting you pester your paramour with constant queries and messages of love and life minutia, but please don't forget the business ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
6
Community Manager - Technical.ly
... and reliable a strong thinker excited by both high-level strategy and operational minutia.You will run a unique complex of offices for startups, ... «Technical.ly, Jul 15»
7
The Mets, dealing with their own injuries, take aim at Nationals - The …
Except at some point, the minutia adds up to become a season in full. Here is the struggle at hand this week, mixing urgency (Mets) with grind ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
8
Pacers straighten out cap, have Monta Ellis re-sign | Vigilant Sports
Cap minutia: league has temporarily disallowed Monta Ellis's contract w/ Pacers; team ran out of room, just has to re-order transactions. «Vigilant Sports, Jul 15»
9
Mets' 18 inning, 3-1 win over St. Louis Cardinals wasn't just long, it …
So the afternoon went on, filling up with oddities and minutia. Gilmartin notched his first major-league hit in the 16th inning in his first ... «NJ.com, Jul 15»
10
Adam Goldberg Ready To 'Go Blue' On 'The Jim Gaffigan Show'
... and political stances and he and I talk about the virtues of sort of dirty comedy versus clean comedy and gets into this sort of minutia of that. «Access Hollywood, Jul 15»

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