minima
Americannoun
noun
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The researchers are now planning a metagenomic study that extends the time series to cover periods of even more intense sea ice minima.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
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
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
Wherever the present writer gives times, they must be understood to be the quickest of which he happens to have made any note; for the best test of times is a 'reductio ad minima.'
From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by Smith, W. P. Haskett
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