min-max

[ min-maks ]

/ ˈmɪnˌmæks /

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verb (used with object) min-maxed, min-max·ing.

(in a video game or role-playing game) to optimize (a character) by assigning all, or nearly all, skill points to the ability essential to that character’s success in a specified role and environment, and no points to other skills, rather than distributing skill points more evenly across attributes.

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Also called min/max .

Origin of min-max

First recorded in 2005–10; min(imum) + max(imum)

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH min-max

minimax, min-max

Words nearby min-max

minke, minke whale, Minkowski, Minkowski space-time, Minkowski world, min-max, min min, Minn., Minna, Minneapolis, Minnelli

How to use min-max in a sentence

We fight over their ownership and control, as if reality were a resource as scarce as the water and oil in Mad Max.
On Torture, Chuck Johnson & Sondheim|James Poulos|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Picasso and Guillaume can laugh through an entire night of suggestions, inventions, songs, games that Max plays with his face.
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“Max in particular has been very smart about staying current and remaining a student of the craft,” Borchetta says.
Taylor Swift’s Secret Music Man: Max Martin, Elusive Hitmaker|Debra A. Klein|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Max, [my] agent, make me rich,” she says, the crowd roaring.
Tennis Star Li Na Says Goodbye to the Court…and Puts the Sport’s Rise in Asia in Question|Nicholas McCarvel|September 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Salmond had initially asked for a package of additional powers, known as “Devo max” to be included on the ballot paper.
Anarchy for the U.K.? British Leaders Panicking Over Scottish Vote for Independence|Nico Hines|September 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A pupil of her father until his death, when she became a student under Gabriel Max, in Munich, for a year.
Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D.|Clara Erskine Clement
They sniffed once at the bar, but followed their stubbled chins into the back room at max acc.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
Then Max Bray lit a cigar, and sat thinking over the events of the past few days, and of what he had done.
By Birth a Lady|George Manville Fenn
Max Bray arranged all future matters to his entire satisfaction, but again there were contingencies that he could not foresee.
By Birth a Lady|George Manville Fenn
There were three other passengers in the train this time; but a movement upon the part of Max Bray now troubled her.
By Birth a Lady|George Manville Fenn