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English
Adverb
a small matter
- (obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little.
1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Dialogue 2:[…] if that it were possible to remove the impediment of the Air, which resisting penetration, doth some small matter retard and impede the motion of the pendulum.
1788, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, section 79.4:The socket and spindle being a small matter taper.
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