Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of minimizing; reduction to the lowest terms or proportions. Also spelled
minimisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of minimizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
lowering something to itssmallest value or extent - noun mathematics The process of finding the
minimum value of afunction
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position
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Examples
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Now, minimization is great, and as I say above, there are solid reasons why intelligence surveillance probably needs to shift some oversight and checks from the front-end to the back-end, relative to Title III criminal wiretapping.
Minimize Me! 2008
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Error minimization is the subject; how good is the genetic code at minimizing some error function (cost, objective, or fitness function, or whatever ya wanna call it).
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Error minimization is a critical point in my view and fertile ground for future blogging.
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TOOBIN: There's a process called minimization that the cops are supposed to do.
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That can lead them to frequently switch recording devices on and off, a process called "minimization."
The Seattle Times 2011
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That can lead them to frequently switch recording devices on and off, a process called "minimization."
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But raw transcripts would not necessarily have undergone such editing, called "minimization."
NYT > Home Page By SCOTT SHANE 2011
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That can lead them to frequently switch recording devices on and off, a process called "minimization."
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But raw transcripts would not necessarily have undergone such editing, called "minimization."
NYT > Global Home By SCOTT SHANE 2011
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But raw transcripts would not necessarily have undergone such editing, called "minimization."
NYT > Home Page By SCOTT SHANE 2011
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