Can someone illustrate what's linux device number's minor number exactly for?

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Published on 2010-06-07T15:40:13Z Indexed on 2010/06/07 15:42 UTC
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The minor number is used by the kernel to determine exactly which device is being referred to.

The above explanation is just two abstract, can someone illustrate?

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