minutia
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Definitions ofminutia
- A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
Example: "They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress."
- (biometrics, forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.
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