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Minify

Minify \Min"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minified; p. pr. & vb. n. Minifying.] [L. minor less + -fly.]

  1. To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.

  2. To degrade by speech or action.

Wiktionary
minify

vb. 1 To make small. 2 To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens 3 (context computing English) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.

WordNet
minify
  1. v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: decrease, lessen] [ant: increase]

  2. [also: minified]

Usage examples of "minify".

It has throughout denied or minified Mendelian results, and depended on the treatment of inheritance by a study of correlations.

An armband with a special dye, which gives back correct responses to a minified radar scope, is worn by Library employees on those floors.