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minor I. adjectiv

1. mai mic, mait tânăr (din doi); cel tânăr (dintre doi fraţi care sunt la şcoală).

2. minor, inferior; fără importanţă, neînsemnat; de mâna a doua, de rangul doi, de-al doilea ordin;

minor poets poeţi minori.

3. (muz., despre ton) minor.

4. trist, melancolic;

(fig.) conversation in a minor key conversaţie pe un ton minor / melancolic.

minor II. substantiv

1. (log.) (premisă) minoră (într-un silogism).

2. (rar) minor (persoană care n-a atins majoratul).

3. călugăr franciscan.

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While the main route of fatty acid metabolism is through beta-oxidation, some minor metabolic pathways such as omega oxidation also contribute to the metabolism of fatty acids and other molecules.

(Omega-Oxidation of Fatty Acids Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Her emotion was such as Mrs. Jennings had attributed to a very different cause;—but whatever minor feelings less pure, less pleasing, might have a share in that emotion, her esteem for the general benevolence, and her gratitude for the particular friendship, which together prompted Colonel Brandon to this act, were strongly felt, and warmly expressed.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Upon internalization, the prodrug moiety is released and activated and binds to double-stranded B-DNA within the minor groove, thereby alkylating the -3 position of adenine, which may result in the inhibition of cellular proliferation of tumor cells that overexpress CD70.

(Anti-CD70 Antibody-Drug Conjugate MDX-1203, NCI Thesaurus)

All the minor arrangements of table and chair, lights and music, tea and supper, made themselves; or were left as mere trifles to be settled at any time between Mrs. Weston and Mrs. Stokes.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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