English-French translations for minutia

• minutie
  C' est pourquoi, Monsieur le Président, je pense que nous ne devons pas nous perdre en minuties comptables ou de nature juridique. I therefore feel, Mr President, that we must not get bogged down in the minutiae of accounting procedures or of the law.
  Il se concentre trop sur la minutie des détails en empêchant parfois les changements administratifs en matière recrutement et en entravant les visées stratégiques. It focuses too much on the minutiae of detail in sometimes preventing administrative changes in staffing and frustrating strategic vision.
• petit détail

Definition of minutia

• A minor detail, often of negligible importance
• Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges

Examples

• They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.

Related words

• minutiæ
• diminutive
• minutiae
• comminution
• diminution
• diminutiveness