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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪnɪməm/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪnəməm/
• ハイフネーション: min‧i‧mum

名詞

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:

     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.

使用する際の注意点

• Minima is more common plural for the technical senses.

反意語

• maximum

上位語

• (statistics): measure of location
• extremum

下位語

派生語

関連する語

• minimal
• minimize, minimise

形容詞

minimum (not comparable)

1. To the lowest degree.

   Synonym: minimal

派生語

• minimum wage

形容詞

minimum

1. inflection of minimus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

参照

• “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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016