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

  1. 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.

  2. Concentration as a noun:

    A field or course of study on which one focuses, especially as a student in a college or university.

  3. 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))

  4. Concentration as a noun:

    The matching game pelmanism.

  1. Minor as an adjective:

    Of little significance or importance.

    Examples:

    "The physical appearance of a candidate is a minor factor in recruitment."

  2. 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"

  3. Minor as an adjective (music):

    being the smaller of the two intervals denoted by the same ordinal number

  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. Minor as a noun (mathematics):

    determinant of a square submatrix

  4. Minor as a noun (British slang, dated):

    A younger brother (especially at a public school).

  5. Minor as a noun (zoology):

    A small worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony, sized between a minim and a media.

  6. Minor as a noun (logic):

    The term of a syllogism which forms the subject of the conclusion.

  1. Minor as a verb:

    To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university.

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