English-Portuguese translations for minutia

• minúcia
  É tempo de levantarmos a cabeça e de não olharmos apenas para as minúcias dos critérios de convergência. Now is the time for us to raise our heads from the minutiae of the convergence criteria.
  Estava decidida a não atafulhar essa directiva com as minúcias de pormenor existentes na Convenção STCW. It was bent on not cluttering up that directive with the minutiae of detail extant in the STCW Convention.
  É ridículo que tenhamos de estar envolvidos nas minúcias desta directiva dada a sua enorme complexidade e a sua importância. It is ridiculous that we should be involved in the minutiae of this directive given how complex and yet how important it is.

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