The difference between Concentration and Minor
When used as nouns, concentration means the act, process or ability of concentrating, whereas minor means a person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
Minor is also verb with the meaning: to choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.
Minor is also adjective with the meaning: of little significance or importance.
check bellow for the other definitions of Concentration and Minor
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Concentration as a noun:
The act, process or ability of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated. The direction of attention to a specific object. The act, process or product of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation. The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
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Concentration as a noun:
A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.
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Concentration as a noun (chemistry):
The proportion of a substance in a whole. The amount of solute in a solution measured in suitable units (e.g., parts per million (ppm))
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Concentration as a noun:
The matching game pelmanism.
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Minor as an adjective:
Of little significance or importance.
Examples:
"The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment."
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Minor as an adjective (music):
Of a scale which has lowered scale degrees three, six, and seven relative to major, but with the sixth and seventh not always lowered
Examples:
"a minor scale"
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Minor as an adjective (music):
being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number
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Minor as a noun:
A person who is below the legal age of majority, consent, criminal responsibility or other adult responsibilities and accountabilities.
Examples:
"It is illegal to sell weapons to minors under the age of eighteen."
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Minor as a noun:
A subject area of secondary concentration of a student at a college or university, or the student who has chosen such a secondary concentration.
Examples:
"I had so many credit hours of English, it became my minor."
"I became an English minor."
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Minor as a noun (mathematics):
determinant of a square submatrix
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Minor as a noun (British slang, dated):
A younger brother (especially at a public school).
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Minor as a noun (zoology):
A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.
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Minor as a noun (logic):
The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.
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Minor as a verb:
To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.