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Meaning of "minutiae" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MINUTIAE

Pl of Late Latin minūtia smallness, from Latin minūtusminute².
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PRONUNCIATION OF MINUTIAE

minutiae  [mɪˈnjuːʃɪˌiː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MINUTIAE

noun
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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Minutiae 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.

WHAT DOES MINUTIAE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Minutiae

Minutiae are, in everyday English, minor or incidental details. In biometrics and forensic science, minutiae are major features of a fingerprint, using which comparisons of one print with another can be made. Minutiae include: ▪ Ridge ending – the abrupt end of a ridge ▪ Ridge bifurcation – a single ridge that divides into two ridges ▪ Short ridge, or independent ridge – a ridge that commences, travels a short distance and then ends ▪ Island – a single small ridge inside a short ridge or ridge ending that is not connected to all other ridges ▪ Ridge enclosure – a single ridge that bifurcates and reunites shortly afterward to continue as a single ridge ▪ Spur – a bifurcation with a short ridge branching off a longer ridge ▪ Crossover or bridge – a short ridge that runs between two parallel ridges ▪ Delta – a Y-shaped ridge meeting ▪ Core – a U-turn in the ridge pattern...

Definition of minutiae in the English dictionary

The definition of minutiae in the dictionary is small, precise, or trifling details.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MINUTIAE


cochleae
ˈkɒklɪˌiː
corneae
ˈkɔːnɪˌiː
differentiae
ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃɪˌiː
ecclesiae
ɪˈkliːzɪˌiː
exuviae
ɪɡˈzjuːvɪˌiː
facetiae
fəˈsiːʃɪˌiː
filariae
fɪˈleərɪˌiː
fimbriae
ˈfɪmbrɪˌiː
galeae
ˈɡeɪlɪˌiː
herniae
ˈhɜːnɪˌiː
induviae
ɪnˈdjuːvɪˌiː
lamiae
ˈleɪmɪˌiː
microfilariae
ˌmaɪkrəʊfɪˈlɛərɪˌiː
paleae
ˈpeɪlɪˌiː
petechiae
pɪˈtiːkɪˌiː
reliquiae
rɪˈlɪkwɪˌiː
rickettsiae
rɪˈketsɪˌiː
teniae
ˈtiːnɪˌiː
tibiae
ˈtɪbɪˌiː
torii
ˈtɔːrɪˌiː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MINUTIAE

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
minutia
minutial
minutiose

WORDS THAT END LIKE MINUTIAE

actiniae
amici curiae
amicus curiae
amor patriae
branchiae
Cassiopeiae
cercariae
chlamydiae
curiae
faciae
fasciae
feriae
Graiae
laciniae
mediae
metacercariae
scoriae
spuriae
striae
taeniae

Synonyms and antonyms of minutiae in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MINUTIAE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «minutiae» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of minutiae

Translation of «minutiae» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MINUTIAE

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

Translator English - Chinese

细节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

minucias
570 millions of speakers

English

minutiae
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ज़रा सी बात
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفصيلات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мелочи
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

minúcias
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষুদ্র অংশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

menus détails
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Minutiae
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Detail
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マニューシャ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사소한
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Minutiae
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điều vụn vặt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒவ்வொரு நிமிடத்தையும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्षुल्लक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

önemsiz ayrıntılar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

minuzie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

minucje
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дрібниці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

detalii precise
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μικρολεπτομέρειες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kleinigheden
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

minutiae
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bagateller
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of minutiae

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MINUTIAE»

The term «minutiae» is regularly used and occupies the 84.679 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MINUTIAE» OVER TIME

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

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8 QUOTES WITH «MINUTIAE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word minutiae.
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Xander Berkeley
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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Eric Betzig
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
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Sigmar Gabriel
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
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Jonah Goldberg
If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.
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Anne Lamott
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
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Pamela Sue Martin
I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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Anne McCaffrey
I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.
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Scarlett Thomas
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MINUTIAE»

Discover the use of minutiae in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to minutiae and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Detailed Minuti‘ of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern ...
Carlton McCarthy, a private in the Army of Northern Virginia, describes the not-always-regular rations, various improvisations in clothing and weaponry, campfire entertainments, the jaunty spirits and the endless maneuvering of the men in ...
Carlton McCarthy, 1993
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Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition
At the local level (Level 2), other important features, called minutiae can be found in the fingerprint patterns. Minutia means small detail; in the context of fingerprints, it refers to various ways that the ridges can be discontinuous (see Figure 3.4).
Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Anil K. Jain, 2009
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Advances in Fingerprint Technology, Second Edition
box size is adjusted based on the estimate of the local deformation; the estimate of the local deformation is derived from the bounding boxes of the already matched minutia in the neighborhood of the current template minutiae. The string  ...
Henry C. Lee, Robert Ramotowski, R. E. Gaensslen, 2001
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Advances in Biometrics: Third International Conferences, ICB ...
However, the information provided by only minutiae set is limited since it discards the global ridge information. Therefore, researchers proposed to make use of other discriminatory features to establish the correspondence among minutiae and ...
Massimo Tistarelli, Mark S. Nixon, 2009
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Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering ...
the minutiae. Then, the identification table is compared with the fingerprint database, and finally a candidate list is generated according to the level of similarity. Identification process consists of minutiae information acquisition stage , table ...
Rajiv Khosla, Robert J. Howlett, L. C. Jain, 2005
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Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society
comparing the facial minutiae of the unknown image with that of all known images in the database. The database can be partitioned by first classifying the faces either based on minutiae-related characteristics or on other characteristics such ...
Anil K. Jain, Ruud Bolle, Sharath Pankanti, 1999
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Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2004: ...
... 2004, Proceedings Antonio Laganà. Finally, median filtering makes ridges softly. If it is not applied in image, after thinning there occurs many small branches and raises minutiae's numbers and drops accurate rate at the matching process.
Antonio Laganà, 2004
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Foundations of Intelligent Systems: 14th International ...
The performance of different methods has been reliably evaluated by comparing the detected minutiae with the set of minutiae obtained from the same image by a human expert. A thinning process has been carried out by the algorithm ...
Ning Zhong, 2003
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Advances in Structural and Syntactical Pattern Recognition: ...
This paper describes how a minutiae reliability measure can be defined and integrated in an automatic fingerprint identification system. The reliability measure denotes the quality of the minutiae and is used to weight the minutiae in the ...
Petra Perner, Patrick Wang, Azriel Rosenfeld, 1996
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Innovations and Advanced Techniques in Systems, Computing ...
The obtained minutiae set is compared with stored template, building, for each minutia of the first set, a list of corresponding potential minutiae using the Euclidean distance as metric. All considered triangular shapes pairs must have an ...
Khaled Elleithy, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MINUTIAE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term minutiae is used in the context of the following news items.
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There's a word for the Scrabble players who win without style …
I starting playing the game with my father as a boy, and today, decades later, we two continue to spend many hours discussing the minutiae of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Questions Surround Billionaire's Role in Perry Campaign | The …
“Every donor is going to have specific ideas about how they want us to operate but none of them are going to get into the minutiae,” Barbour ... «Texas Tribune, Jul 15»
3
Civilization turns again with Beyond Earth Rising Tide | Polygon
This is a complicated game that demands its players fuss and bother over the big picture as well as the minutiae, over the immediate crisis as ... «Polygon, Jul 15»
4
Foster care in ancient Ireland was an established and beloved …
The laws which governed the fosterage process were very detailed and complex and controlled even the minutiae of their daily lives; stir-about ... «IrishCentral, Jul 15»
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3 Killings by Chicago Police Covered Up, Ex-Investigator Alleges …
(Those supervisors are in charge of IPRA's 60 investigators, who, like detectives, dig into the minutiae of each incident.) Now, Ando has ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
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Volcker Bank-Risk Rule Set to Start With Little Fanfare - NASDAQ.com
Regulators have been training examiners to become experts in the rule's minutiae, such as how banks calculate limits they place on trading ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
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My search for a third-party fulfillment company | Practical Ecommerce
Once I selected the region, I began to drill down on the minutiae. First and foremost, the entire fulfillment process had to be automated. «Practical Ecommerce, Jul 15»
8
Common Space - Siobhan Tolland: Labour didn't just abstain on a …
And when the state structures initiate this hunger for not following the minutiae of every single rule, then that cannot be anything but state ... «CommonSpace, Jul 15»
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Lucep wants to make sure you never miss another customer
The co-founders had to learn about the minutiae of the startup business the hard way – by trial and error and, yes, persistence. They also had to deal with the ... «Tech in Asia, Jul 15»
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Culture shock: one day I'll pen a guide to the strange world of …
These are the minutiae which accumulate to give a slight but eerie sense of estrangement. My wife is from Bombay. She was initially alienated ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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