he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code.
Examples of minutia
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We'll be parsing the minutia from the quiz and sharing key insights on this blog.
From the bats.blogs.nytimes.com
It is painstaking to keep track of this minutia, but the tax law requires it.
From the forbes.com
It's rich with illustrations from the game, and extensive background minutia.
From the kentucky.com
I often write thousands of words about what many would consider the minutia of tech.
From the techcrunch.com
A monument to minutia, the book is profoundly consequential to the lives of Ohioans.
From the dispatchpolitics.com
It means that DOOM doesn't have to hear every bit of minutia of Munch's day.
From the post-gazette.com
After all, pundits almost never see the big stuff coming, just the minutia.
From the washingtonpost.com
Note that these pronouncements are usually minutia that are irrelevant to most people.
From the economist.com
The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror.
From the time.com
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(minutia) a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"
Minutiae (sing. minutia, ; both also) are, in everyday English, minor or incidental.
(minutia) A minor detail, often of negligible importance
The unique, measurable physical characteristics scanned as input and stored for matching by biometric systems. For fingerprints, minutiae include the starting and ending points of ridges, bifurcations and ridge junctions among other features.
Minutiae is a term used to describe the points ("plot points") at which the ridges seen on a finger scan branch or end. ...
Key data points (especially ridge bifurcations and end lines) within an individual's fingerprint that can be extracted and used to match against the same individual's live fingerprint. [GAO] (see also biometrics)
The characteristics of friction ridges on palms, fingers, toes, and soles of the feet.