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[min-uh-muhm] / ˈmɪn ə məm /




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Instead, the researchers observed a local minimum in the oscillation amplitude across certain temperature ranges.

From Science Daily Sep. 5, 2026

The minimum £15m fee secured in Trossard's deal to Besiktas is also viewed as a good deal inside the Emirates given the Belgian turns 32 in December.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

And in Murray, Minnesota saw a player with upside whom they could sign to a minimum contract because the Cardinals still owe him so much.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The state’s $16.90 an hour minimum wage—set to rise to $17.40 in January—helps “ensure workers share in that growth,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Declaring that he would never take back the strikers, he raised the minimum wage for a police officer and set about recruiting an entire new police force.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

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

This class of functions includes all those which have a finite number of maxima and minima in a finite-interval, and some which have an infinite number.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Account minimums may vary depending on the relationships between the fund manager or distributor and the advisory or brokerage firm.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

But they are based on 2025 stress capital buffers, or SCBs, which refer to the capital lenders must hold above required regulatory minimums.

From Barron's Jun. 24, 2026

The organisation said their documented figures should be seen as "absolute minimums", as getting information on deaths was severely limited by difficulty accessing sites, government-imposed internet blackouts and political repression.

From BBC Jun. 19, 2026

The court then issued a related ruling in Rutherford that prisoners could not receive a reduction in sentence based on mandatory minimums that Congress had reduced after their conviction.

From Slate Jun. 2, 2026

The weather report was routine—even boring—with details about air pressure, wind speeds, and temperature maximums and minimums.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow




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