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noun Mathematics.

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

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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.
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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.
Restaurants Avoiding Big Delivery Apps Have to Get Creative|Kristen Hawley|February 1, 2021|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.
The Year in Biology|John Rennie|December 23, 2020|Quanta Magazine
If it could be duplicated, that would only get Ryan to his absolute minimum level of revenues as a share of GDP.
Ryan's Budget is So Ambitious, it Needs Magic to Work|Noah Kristula-Green|March 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Meantime, Israel has to take great care to protect its borders with an absolute minimum of force.
Israel: No Peace in Sight|Leslie H. Gelb|May 16, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Netanyahu has made it abundantly clear that he is unwilling to meet the absolute minimum requirements for direct negotiations.
Obama's Pathetic Mideast Policy|Reza Aslan|May 9, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The attempt has been made, however, to establish both the absolute minimum standard and this relative standard.
Consumers and Wage-Earners|J. Elliot Ross
Such an abstractive element must in some sense exhibit a convergence to an absolute minimum of intrinsic character.
The Concept of Nature|Alfred North Whitehead
The mass ratio necessary to inject the Aztec into its moon trajectory had precluded fuel beyond the absolute minimum needed.
First on the Moon|Jeff Sutton
Note also the dates on which the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum occurred.
Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology|Robert DeCourcy Ward
The absolute monthly range of temperature is the difference, in degrees, between the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum.
Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology|Robert DeCourcy Ward