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minima

American  
[min-uh-muh] / ˈmɪn ə mə /

noun

  1. a plural of minimum.


minima British  
/ ˈmɪnɪmə /

noun

  1. a plural of minimum

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In momentum space, free electrons are found in the local minima and maxima of the energy landscape, namely at points where the conduction and valence bands meet.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

"We found that even when bulk pyrite sulfur isotopes changed a lot between glacials and interglacials, the minima of our single grain pyrite distributions remained broadly constant," Bryant said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2023

Our home star goes through periods called grand minima when there are few to no sunspots.

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023

She was able to get photos of the Perdita minima but not the hard-to-spot burrows she hoped to also find.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2022

"Ea rana quam Gr�ci calamiten vocant, quoniam inter arundines, fruticesque vivat, minima omnium est et viridissima."

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

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