Minimal

//ˈmɪn.ɪ.məl//

"Minimal" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

The chances that that happens are minimal.

Her education was so minimal that she could not even name the eight planets of our Solar System.

The notion of "minimal pair" in linguistics has the lovely power of immediately convincing.

The danger is minimal.

Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources.

The damage was minimal.

Security is minimal here.

I think the economic impact will be minimal.

I think that the economic impact will be minimal.

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With minimal effort, you won't be able to achieve all your dreams.

With respect to the ordering induced by set-theoretic inclusion, the power set of the set of natural numbers has a unique minimal element: the empty set.

[…] we seek in explaining mental phenomena and behavior always the "minimals," the little fragments of association, on which the mind is (passively) supposed to be based.

[…] identifications with birds, fish, trees, and flowers (and occasionally as relief, with the stillness of rocks, clam shells, driftwood, and nature's minimals); […]

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