Semibreve vs. Minim — What's the Difference?

A whole note in music.

In the United States, 1/60 of a fluid dram (0.0616 milliliter).

(music) A musical note four beats long in 4/4 time; a whole note US

In Great Britain, 1/20 of a scruple (0.0592 milliliter).

A note of half the time or duration of the breve; - now usually called a whole note. It is the longest note in general use.

(Music) A half note.

A musical note having the longest time value (equal to four beats in common time)

An insignificantly small portion or thing.

A downward vertical stroke in handwriting.

(music) A half note, drawn as a semibreve with a stem.

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.

A short vertical stroke used in handwriting.

Anything very minute; applied to animalcula and the like.

(zoology) The smallest kind of worker in a leaf-cutter ant colony.

A little man or being; a dwarf.

A small fish; a minnow.

A short poetical encomium.

Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; - applied to animalcula; and the like.

The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm, equal to one four-hundred-eightieth of a fluid ounce, or 0.06161 milliliter (U. S. measure) or 0.05919 milliliters (British measure).

A small fish; a minnow.

A little man or being; a dwarf.

One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.

A short poetical encomium.

Minute.

A British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 1/60th fluid dram or 0.059194 cubic centimeters

A United States liquid unit equal to 1/60 fluidram

A musical note having the time value of half a whole note