minutia

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noun

Plural noun:

minutiaeminutiæ

1.
A minor detail, often of negligible importance.
They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
2.
(biometrics, forensics) Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

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Latin minutia, from minūtus (small, little), from minuō (make smaller). minute.