Very slight

Usage examples of minimal.

The hydrostatic subsystem had blown a seal, and pressure was at minimal functional levels.

Vienna jgst alter the war, but he never practised as far as I can see,either in general practice or as a specialist, until he came to England, when he did a minimal training in hypnotherapy, and launched himself as an expert on some decidedly fringe activities.

Now Marcie pointed out that even though the yard was generous, it would require minimal care.

The miracle of this uncomplicated monody with its minimal chordal accompaniment is not diminished by our hindsight knowledge that it had been there waiting, throughout recorded history, yet unnoticed by the bearded creaking practitioners of the complex.

For this underground installation was a small, unmanned storage depot containing not more than 1,800 large cylinders of a particularly nasty psychotomimetic gas, with minimal laboratory facilities attached.

There used to be a party atmosphere out on the throughway, in the cheap lanes where mobility is low or minimal.

A case could be made for the viola to be a transposing version of the violin, except that, in the absence of frets, the built-in bias toward a certain key is minimal, and the instrument can thus be written as it sounds.

So far you have told me no more than the report your crew transmitted from within the Uncleared, which is minimal.

The students, unsworn, with minimal teaching, stumbled in the darkness, ignorant of why the monks neither allowed nor required light.

Load up the antihydrogen and get out with minimal losses to both sides.

So you took that retirement early, applied for a job at Bechtel, and with a little help from the fact that they had few blacks in security and fewer still out on the Idaho facility that the company managed for the Department of Energy, you found yourself a cushy job where the stress was minimal, the scenery was gorgeous, and the fishing was spectacular.

Examination of the airways revealed no soot deposition, and blood carboxyhemoglobin saturation was minimal.

Chatterjee A, B and C were a triad of simple craters just below Chladni, and while the smaller two were of minimal interest, Chatterjee A was the child of a meteor that had punched through the Imbrian basalts to as sweet a vein of aluminum ore as anything in the highlands.

Even if someone is bitten and escapes, the chances of surviving are minimal.

The swellings, her very public estrus, were thus a way for Patch to control the males around her at minimal cost to herself, and to reduce the risk of infanticide.