minimum

Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnɪməm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪnəməm/

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• Hyphenation: min‧i‧mum

minimum (plural minima or minimums)

1. The lowest limit.

   We prefer candidates with a minimum of 4 years experience in the field.

   We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all times.

2. The smallest amount.

   He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.

   Please keep noise to a minimum after 11 o'clock

   • 2021 April 16, Judy Berman, “Kate Winslet's Mare of Easttown Is the Rare Crime Drama That Cares About Its Characters”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Realism might be the hardest aesthetic to do well. The performances have to be genuinely moving and the setting vividly evoked; bonkers twists must be kept to a minimum.

3. (astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

   The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth.

4. (mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
5. (statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

• Minima is more common plural for the technical senses.

• maximum

• (statistics): measure of location
• extremum

• minimal
• minimize, minimise

minimum (not comparable)

1. To the lowest degree.

   Synonym: minimal

• minimum wage

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɪmum]

minimum n

1. minimum

   Antonym: maximum

• See minus

• “minimum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “minimum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “minimum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

minimum n (singular definite minimummet, plural indefinite minimummer)

1. minimum

• maksimum

• “minimum” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Latin minimum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.niˌmʏm/

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• Hyphenation: mi‧ni‧mum

minimum n (plural minima)

1. minimum

• Note that the plural minima has meanings specific to it.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni.mɔm/

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• Rhymes: -ɔm
• Homophone: minimums

minimum m (plural minima)

1. minimum

• The 1990 spelling reform recommends that the plural of minimum should be minimums.

• au minimum
• minimum syndical
• salaire minimum
• strict minimum

• Persian: مینیمم (minimom)

• “minimum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

minimum

1. accusative masculine singular of minimus
2. nominative neuter singular of minimus
3. accusative neuter singular of minimus
4. vocative neuter singular of minimus

• “minimum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• minimum in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

From Latin minimum.

minimum n (definite singular minimumet, indefinite plural minima or minimumer, definite plural minimaene or minimuma or minimumene)

1. minimum

• maksimum

• minimumskrav

• “minimum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin minimum.

minimum n (definite singular minimumet, indefinite plural minimum, definite plural minimuma)

1. minimum

• maksimum

• minimumskrav

• “minimum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Latin minimum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ɲi.mum/, (colloquial) /miˈɲi.mum/

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• Rhymes: -iɲimum, -imum
• Syllabification: mi‧ni‧mum

minimum (not comparable)

1. at least

   Synonym: co najmniej

minimum n

1. minimum

   Antonym: maksimum

• minimum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• minimum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin minimum.

minimum n (uncountable)

1. minimum (lowest limit)
2. minimum, modicum (small quantity)

• IPA^(key): /mǐnimum/
• Hyphenation: mi‧ni‧mum

mìnimum m inan (Cyrillic spelling мѝнимум)

1. minimum

minimum n

1. minimum