minutia

n. 细节, 琐事

发音

UK /maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/

词形变化

minutiae 复数 minutiae minutiæ minutiæ 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A minor detail, often of negligible importance.

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

  2. 2.

    Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 4

point detail quality item

词源

Borrowed from Latin minutia, from minūtus (“small, little”), from minuō (“make smaller”). By surface analysis, minute + -ia.

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