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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
minimal
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
minimal/negligible (=very small and not important)
▪ The change in government had a minimal impact in the rural areas of the country.
negligible/minimalformal (= very small)
▪ The advertising campaign had a negligible effect on demand.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
only
▪ Since no external coding is required, only minimal debugging and testing are required for application generation, according to the company.
▪ Some of the incipient school-to-work systems I visited had made only minimal changes to the school program.
▪ The fire brigade arrived promptly and the fire was contained in one area, causing only minimal damage to equipment.
▪ With only minimal attention and love, he neither speaks nor walks nor feeds himself.
▪ Unfortunately, only minimal control over this basic aspect of construction has been possible with these devices.
▪ In reality, the Navy was undertaking only minimal reconnaissance, mainly because of a lack of airplanes.
▪ He gained only minimal official recognition for his work; death prevented his election to the Royal Society.
▪ Most live with only minimal sanitary, health and educational facilities.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ This is a practical knitting course with a minimal amount of theory.
▪ These products do, however, contain a minimal amount of cholesterol as claimed oil the label.
▪ Assumes only minimal amount of previous knowledge, and therefore concentrates on clarity of definition and explanation.
▪ With a minimal amount of solid rewriting, you can reap some surprising benefits.
▪ The clinic fee is almost sufficient to cover a counsellor's sessional fee, thus costing the practice a minimal amount.
change
▪ When undertaken, renal biopsy has usually shown interstitial nephritis, although minimal change nephropathy has been reported.
▪ Some of the incipient school-to-work systems I visited had made only minimal changes to the school program.
▪ A second alternative is to employ the principle of minimal change.
▪ The three participating high schools had made minimal changes in curriculum or instruction.
▪ They then shoehorn their minimal changes into their old management practices.
cost
▪ An accompanying booklet gives advice on timber selection, and how timber can be harvested locally at minimal cost.
▪ It provides a means of improving performance at a minimal cost.
▪ All this can be done at minimal cost.
▪ This involved a minimal cost while enabling them to accumulate expertise and gain entry into new markets.
▪ The Parasene Warm-Lite is an attractive lantern which can provide light and heat in a greenhouse or garden shed at minimal cost.
▪ Delegation achieves this at minimal cost.
▪ A military commander should order his troops in the way best calculated to achieve victory at a minimal cost.
damage
▪ The fire brigade arrived promptly and the fire was contained in one area, causing only minimal damage to equipment.
▪ The fire did minimal damage, she said, and there were no injuries.
▪ The Psychopomps had checked in and done some minimal damage two nights back.
▪ Other studies requested by the government in 1993 predicted minimal damage.
effort
▪ These penetrate the ground with minimal effort.
▪ Often illogical or insubstantial, they can be neutralized or eliminated with a minimal effort.
▪ In general, he works on the principle of minimal effort to achieve the required objectives in terms of both speed and quality.
impact
▪ Mining proposals continue to have the prospect of minimal impact on unemployment rates.
▪ The main point here is the relatively minimal impact of employment in port-related activities.
▪ Liberal parties were able to make minimal impact on peasant and working-class constituents.
level
▪ Some minimal level of compliance with societal expectations is, in other words, built into the profit goal.
▪ At minimal level, this would be a second dot.
pairs
▪ Minimal pairs and nearly minimal pairs should be placed side by side across the lists.
▪ Quite often this includes drill with minimal pairs, sets of words which differ from each other in just one phonemic contrast.
▪ How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9?
state
▪ In theory the Thatcherites were for a minimal state.
▪ Objective: higher profits from minimal state regulation of the production and sale of drugs, except for regulation of quality.
▪ Florida has successfully used private capital in prison construction and operation, with a minimal state subsidy for each inmate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Desert plants will stay healthy even with minimal watering.
▪ The crew had very little experience and were given minimal safety training.
▪ The effect on taxpayers will be minimal.
▪ The impact of the sale on current employees should be minimal.
▪ The new operating technique involves minimal risk to patients.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But his role is expected to be minimal, aside from a brief speech and video presentation.
▪ Democrats charge that the savings to the consumer, if any actually materialize, will be minimal.
▪ Johannesburg: Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker, with the general index 19 points down at 2,710.
▪ Some states, however, give nontenured teachers minimal procedural rights.
▪ The former requires minimal talent, hard work and a lot of luck.
▪ The source code and minimal documentation will be available to researchers and libraries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Minimal

Minimal \Min"i*mal\, a. Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
minimal

"smallest, least," 1660s, from Latin minimus (see minim) + -al (1).

Wiktionary
minimal

a. 1 The smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. 2 (context arts English) characterised by the use of simple form or structures. 3 (context music English) characterised by the repetition and gradual alteration of short phrases.

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WordNet
minimal

adj. the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service" [syn: minimum] [ant: maximal, maximal]

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Wikipedia
Minimal

Minimal may refer to:

  • Minimal element, an element of a subset
  • Minimal music, a style of music
  • Minimal techno, a minimalist subgenre of techno
  • Minimalism, an art movement
  • Minimalism (computing), the application of minimalist philosophies and principles in hardware and software design and usage
  • Minimal (Dungeons & Dragons), a monster in Dungeons & Dragons
  • "Minimal" (song), a song by Pet Shop Boys
  • Minimally invasive procedure
  • Simple Living, minimalism in lifestyle
  • miniMAL, a former supermarket chain in Germany and Poland
Minimal (song)

"Minimal" is a song by British synthpop band Pet Shop Boys and is featured on their 2006 album Fundamental. It was released 24 July 2006 as the second single from that album in the UK, entering the UK Singles Chart at #19 in the first week of its release (see 2006 in British music). It was their 37th Top 20 hit in the UK. The B-side "In Private" (Stuart Crichton 7" Mix) is a new version of a song originally written for Dusty Springfield, this time recorded as a duet between Neil Tennant and Elton John.

Minimal (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the minimal is a type of fictional animal.

Minimal (supermarket)

The brand Minimal (written miniMAL in official usage) was used for a former chain of full-service supermarkets that was operated in Germany and Poland by Rewe Group until 2006.

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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.