| major | any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant |
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| major | the longest axis of an ellipse or ellipsoid |
| major | (psychiatry) a state of depression with all the classic symptoms (anhedonia and lethargy and sleep disturbance and despondency and morbid thoughts and feelings of worthlessness and sometimes attempted suicide) but with no known organic dysfunction |
| major | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th |
| major | any of the parts of speech of traditional grammar |
| major | the most important league in any sport (especially baseball) |
| major | a member of a major-league baseball team |
| major | the maximum lobe in the radiation pattern which is intended to be along the forward axis and which gives the effect of a beam |
| major | a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
| major | the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) |
| major | the premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) |
| major | a diatonic scale with notes separated by whole tones except for the 3rd and 4th and 7th and 8th |