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minimum
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. To the lowest degree. n. 1 The lowest limit. 2 The smallest amount. 3 (context astronomy English) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). 4 (context analysis English) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a maximum/minimum length ▪ This species of fish can reach a maximum length of 12 inches. a maximum/minimum term ▪ The maximum term was life imprisonment. a minimum charge (= an amount that is the least you can ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1810, from minimum (n.).
Usage examples of minimum.
ARPA guaranteed a minimum residual radioactivity and the proper shape of the crater in which the antenna subsequently would be placed.
By then, Woyty had become an antinomian pariah, producing the barest minimum research to survive.
The first theory, proposed by Val LaMarche and Tom Harlan, based on the testimony of California bristlecone pines, was that the periodic temperature minimums recorded by tree rings were caused by volcanic eruptions.
If someone like Brount wanted to assert control in a lawless land, a few basic rules had to be established, the very minimum necessary to keep the lid on the turbulent populace.
Everything extraneous to mission ripped out: Air, food, water storage cut down to irreducible minimum.
Most conveniently the conversion is carried out by dissolving the ammo ester or mixture containing the ammo ester in a minimum amount of alcohol and adding to the mixture a twofold amount of 4 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide solution.
Human rations were fixed far below qualitative and quantitative minima for health, and within a short time, malnutrition, skin ailments, infections, and degenerative diseases began to kill millions.
He and his wife and family are wretchedly poor, but they are kind, good souls, and for a consideration and a minimum of risk to themselves they will always render service to the English milors, whom they believe to be a band of inveterate smugglers.
Our ten-county review suggests a minimum 15-percent misidentification rate.
They keep their soldiers on a short leash in the unpopulated areas, and maintain a minimum show offeree in the cities.
In the event of the two people persisting in their resolution, they would after this minimum interval signify as much to the local official and the necessary entry would be made in the registers.
Her predations are kept to a minimum while our armies are honed by fighting her.
Spike or pungy pits, cartridge traps, overhead grenades, krait or green mamba snakes tied overhead in trees, and coconut mines could be made in the field with a minimum of gear.
She had trouble remembering that it was only a day old, that being the minimum time for a message to crawl to a ship in transit, be received before jump and retransmitted immediately after.
Had to be a biosigns imaging set, counterfeed code sampler and securisys sandbagger in there, minimum.