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- Major - a. - Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
- Major - a. - Of greater dignity; more important.
- Major - a. - Of full legal age.
- Major - a. - Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.
- Major - a. - An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.
- Major - a. - A person of full age.
- Major - a. - That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
- Major - a. - A mayor.
- Major general - - An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
- Major-domo - n. - A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
- Majorat - a. - The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
- Majorat - a. - Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.
- Majorate - n. - The office or rank of a major.
- Majorate - a. - To augment; to increase.
- Majoration - n. - Increase; enlargement.
- Majorcan - a. - Of or pertaining to Majorca.
- Majorcan - n. - A native or inhabitant of Majorca.
- Majorities - pl. - of Majority
- Majority - n. - The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
- Majority - n. - The military rank of a major.
- Majority - n. - The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.
- Majority - n. - The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.
- Majority - n. - Ancestors; ancestry.
- Majority - n. - The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.
- Majorship - n. - The office of major.
- Epichirema - n. - A syllogism in which the proof of the major or minor premise, or both, is introduced with the premises themselves, and the conclusion is derived in the ordinary manner.
- D - - The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A minor), or of the key tone in the relative minor of F.
- Enharmonical - a. - Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.
- Dog - n. - One of the two constellations, Canis Major and Canis Minor, or the Greater Dog and the Lesser Dog. Canis Major contains the Dog Star (Sirius).
- Major - a. - That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].
- Ellipse - n. - An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus.
- Lieutenant general - - An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general.
- Trilemma - n. - A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma.
- A - - The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.
- Hippocampus - n. - A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.
- Major - a. - Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
- Dur - a. - Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
- Brigadier general - - An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier.
- Bear - n. - One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
- Majority - n. - The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
- Scale - n. - The graduated series of all the tones, ascending or descending, from the keynote to its octave; -- called also the gamut. It may be repeated through any number of octaves. See Chromatic scale, Diatonic scale, Major scale, and Minor scale, under Chromatic, Diatonic, Major, and Minor.
- Ditone - n. - The Greek major third, which comprehend two major tones (the modern major third contains one major and one minor whole tone).
- Enthymeme - n. - An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble.
- Eccentric - n. - A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
- Si - - A syllable applied, in solmization, to the note B; more recently, to the seventh tone of any major diatonic scale. It was added to Guido's scale by Le Maire about the end of the 17th century.
- Abduction - n. - A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.
- Sumption - n. - The major premise of a syllogism.
- Comma - n. - A small interval (the difference between a major and minor half step), seldom used except by tuners.
- Apotome - n. - The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone.
- Mayor - n. - The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
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- G4119 πλείων - 4119 πλείων - ΠΛΕΊΩΝ - - pleíōn - pleh'-on - comparative of πολύς; more in quantity, number, or quality; also (in plural) the major portion:--X above, + exceed, more excellent, further, (very) great(-er), long(-er), (very) many, greater (more) part, + yet but. - Adjective - greek
- G4950 σύρτις - 4950 σύρτις - ΣΎΡΤΙΣ - - sýrtis - soor'-tis - from σύρω; a shoal (from the sand drawn thither by the waves), i.e. the Syrtis Major or great bay on the north coast of Africa:--quicksands. - Noun Feminine - greek