An association of sports teams that plays at a level below the major leagues of a sport.

Having a quality less than the best possible.

(music) A musical key based upon a minor scale. / (idiomatic) A mood of melancholy or pathos.

(idiomatic) In a restrained manner; on a small or limited scale.

(music) Any diatonic scale whose first, third, and fifth scale degrees form a minor triad. / (music) The natural minor scale.

A large peninsula, mostly coterminous with Anatolia, between the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea; it makes up the Asian part of Turkey.

The innermost diameter of a cylindrical, circular, or helical feature, such as a screw thread, gear teeth, etc.

(astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the familiar asterism the Little Dipper and, as part of it, the northern pole star Polaris.

(astronomy) A spring constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a small lion. It lies north of the constellation Leo and south of Ursa Major.

(astronomy) A small winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dog following the hunter Orion. It is most notable for including the eighth brightest star in the night sky, Procyon.