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minutia

/mɪˈnjuːʃə/

/mɪˈnuːʃə/

Translations

minutianoun

minutiae

/mɪˈnjuːʃə/

/mɪˈnuːʃə/

He focused on the minutiae of the contract.

Он сосредоточился на мелочах контракта.

The detective examined the minutiae of the crime scene.

Детектив изучил детали места преступления.

Additional translations

мелкая деталь

незначительная деталь

Synonyms

fine point

small point

minutiaadjective

/mɪˈnjuːʃə/

/məˈnuːʃə/

Used attributively, especially in technical and biometric contexts (e.g., “minutia extraction algorithm”).

minutianoun

A small or trivial detail.

She noticed a minutia in the painting that everyone else had missed.

(nonstandard, uncountable) Small, precise, or trivial details considered collectively.

Let's not get bogged down in the minutia and lose sight of the bigger picture.

(biometrics) A ridge ending, bifurcation, or other characteristic point on a fingerprint used for identification.

The software detects each minutia to generate a unique fingerprint template.

minutiaadjective

Relating to or involving minutiae; used attributively to modify another noun.

The engineers developed a minutia matching algorithm for fingerprint recognition.