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Minimum

adjective

The least possible. Synonym: minimal. "Her grades were minimal" , "Minimum wage" , "A minimal charge for the service"

noun

(pl. minima)

The smallest possible quantity. Synonym: lower limit.

The point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right.

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"Minimum" Quotes from Famous Books

... would cost him legitimately if he dealt with the maker direct. Here was the High Cost of Living that everybody was talking about. The remedy? The same chance as the Other Fellow for the farmer to use the resources of Nature and, by co-operation, the reduction to a minimum of production and ...

— Deep Furrows • Hopkins Moorhouse

... chances of marked inflammatory action and scarring (always possibilities) may be reduced to a minimum. ...

— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon

... complete bibliography of Lincoln would include at least five thousand titles. Therefore, any limited bibliography must appear more or less arbitrary. The following is but a minimum list in which, with a few exceptions such as the inescapable interpretative works of Mr. Rhodes and of Professor Dunning, practically everything has to some extent the character of ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

... 4, 1936, Steele sent two of his ablest dollar-pullers, Messrs. Fahr and Hamilton, into the Oklahoma oil fields where the industrialists would like to see a minimum of 200 per cent Americanism instilled in the public mind. Messrs. Fahr and Hamilton had letters of introduction to Mayor T.A. Penny of Tulsa, Okla. When the salesmen approached the Mayor, they had not only the long and imposing list of names on the letterhead but additional letters of introduction ...

— Secret Armies - The New Technique of Nazi Warfare • John L. Spivak

... once Passage de la Bourse, and led down (as it now does to the State House—late St. Louis Hotel) to an establishment which seems to have served for a long term of years as a sort of merchants' and auctioneers' coffee-house, with a minimum of china and a maximum of glass: Maspero's—certainly Maspero's as far back as 1810, and, we believe, Maspero's the day the apothecary entered it, March 9, 1804. It was a livelier spot than the Veau-qui-tete; it was to that what commerce is to litigation, what standing and quaffing ...

— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable

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