absolute minimum

noun

, Mathematics.

1. the smallest value a given function assumes on a specified set. Compare minimum ( def 5a ).

Example Sentences

With one problem, he made a conjecture about the amount of memory an algorithm would need to solve the problem—honing it to the absolute minimum.

From MIT Technology Review

He briefly used Tock’s to-go offering, which charges 3 percent for each order, a number that Tock’s CEO has said was the absolute minimum the company could charge while keeping its own lights on.

From Eater

Further work showed that some of these cells are in a state of suspended animation so extreme that they consume almost the absolute minimum amount of energy for survival.

From Quanta Magazine

If it could be duplicated, that would only get Ryan to his absolute minimum level of revenues as a share of GDP.

From The Daily Beast

Meantime, Israel has to take great care to protect its borders with an absolute minimum of force.

From The Daily Beast

Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that he is unwilling to meet the absolute minimum requirements for direct negotiations.

From The Daily Beast

The attempt has been made, however, to establish both the absolute minimum standard and this relative standard.

From Project Gutenberg

Such an abstractive element must in some sense exhibit a convergence to an absolute minimum of intrinsic character.

From Project Gutenberg

The mass ratio necessary to inject the Aztec into its moon trajectory had precluded fuel beyond the absolute minimum needed.

From Project Gutenberg

Note also the dates on which the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum occurred.

From Project Gutenberg

The absolute monthly range of temperature is the difference, in degrees, between the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum.

From Project Gutenberg