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Meaning of minuscule

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  minuscule
      adj 1: of or relating to a small cursive script developed from
             uncial; 7th to 9th centuries [syn: {minuscule},
             {minuscular}] [ant: {majuscule}]
      2: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is
         written all in minuscule letters" [syn: {little},
         {minuscule}, {small}]
      3: very small; "a minuscule kitchen"; "a minuscule amount of
         rain fell" [syn: {minuscule}, {miniscule}]
      n 1: the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a
           compositor's type case [syn: {small letter}, {lowercase},
           {lower-case letter}, {minuscule}] [ant: {capital}, {capital
           letter}, {majuscule}, {upper-case letter}, {uppercase}]
      2: a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th
         and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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