minims

noun

1. 1.A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.
2. 2.A unit of volume, in the Imperial and U.S. customary systems, 1/60 fluid drachm. Approximately equal to 1 drop, 62 μL or 0.9 grain (weight) of water.
3. 3.A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.
4. 4.Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.
5. 5.The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.