Minim (volume)

Minim (volume)

The minim (abbreviated min or ♏) is a unit of volume in both the imperial and US customary systems of measurement. Specifically it is frac|60 of a fluidram [also spelt "fluid drachm" or "fluid dram"] or frac|480 of a fluid ounce. [ [https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendix-g.html CIA World Factbook] ]

In contrast with apothecaries' weight, apothecaries' measure is a system both recent and short-lived. It seems to have arisen with the United Kingdom's defining of the new imperial gallon in 1824, and is fully described at least as early as 1878 in the Weights and Measures Act. In the United Kingdom, the 1963 Weights and Measures Act provided for the abolition of the minim, fluid scruple, and fluid drachm, all already obsolete. Actual delegalization occurred on February 1, 1971.

While the use of the minim, along with other such measures, has been reduced by the adoption of the metric system, it still persists in some countries in the measurement of dosages of medicine.

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;Imperial minim:

;US customary minim:

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