| minuend | (noun) the number from which the subtrahend is subtracted | - |
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| minuet | (noun) a stately court dance in the 17th century | - |
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| (noun) a stately piece of music composed for dancing the minuet; often incorporated into a sonata or suite | - |
| minus | (noun) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated | Synonyms: subtraction |
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| minuscule | (noun) a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts | - |
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| (noun) the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case | Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter |
| minute | (noun) distance measured by the time taken to cover it | Synonyms: hour |
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| (noun) a short note | - |
| (noun) a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree | Synonyms: arcminute, minute of arc |
| (noun) a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour | Synonyms: min |
| (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, mo, moment, second |
| (noun) a particular point in time | Synonyms: instant, moment, second |
| minuteness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: diminutiveness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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| (noun) great precision; painstaking attention to details | - |
| minutes | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: proceedings, transactions |
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| minutia | (noun) (biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared. | - |
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| (noun) a small or minor detail | - |