Minutia Definition

minutiae
noun

A minor detail, often of negligible importance.

They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
Wiktionary

(biometrics, forensics) Any of the major features of a fingerprint that allow prints to be compared.

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Other Word Forms of Minutia

Noun

Singular:
minutia
Plural:
minutiae

Origin of Minutia

  • Borrowed from Latin minutia.

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Minutia Sentence Examples

  • As noted previously, in the future much of what you do will leave a Digital Echo, a record of its occurrence, down to the very minutia of your life.

  • Some hosts prefer to give a planner only general ideas and guidelines, and let them arrange most of the minutia, while others are far more involved and only rely on the planner's expertise when they are unable to manage.

  • Dean spent most of the evening flipping through TV channels, but as none of the inane programs held even minimal inter­est, he took out his voice recorder and began summarizing his notes for the detailed report on Jeffrey Byrne, adding as much minutia as he could muster, as Cynthia Byrne had requested.

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