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Definition of Minimise

1. Verb. Represent as less significant or important.

2. Verb. Make small or insignificant. "Let's minimize the risk"

Definition of Minimise

1. Verb. (qualifier British) (alternative spelling of minimize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Minimise

1. to minimize [v -MISED, -MISING, -MISES] - See also: minimize

Medical Definition of Minimise

1. To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible. Expressed as a number, degree or extent. To reduce to the smallest possible, to reduce to a minimum. Origin: Minimized; Minimizimg. (22 Sep 2002)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Minimise

miniment miniments minimetropolis minimetropolises minimicrophone minimicrophones minimifidian minimike minimikes minimill

minimills minimin minimisable minimisation minimisations minimise (current term) minimised minimiser minimisers minimises

minimising minimism minimisms minimist minimists minimizable minimization minimizations minimize minimized

Literary usage of Minimise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation by James Orr (1893)
"It is not men of minimise the science only, but some believers in Revelation also, who show natural * evidence for a disposition to minimise the indications ..."

2. Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, with Some of by Alfred Russel Wallace (1890)
"The objectors seek to minimise the agency of natural selection and to subordinate it to laws of variation, of use and disuse, of intelligence, ..."

3. Proceedings of the International Conference on Plant Hardiness and by Daniel Hall (1912)
"... Nitrogen during the making of Farmyard Manure—Preservatives used to minimise the Losses during Dung.making— Composition of Farmyard Manure—Cake.fed v. ..."

4. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"It cannot be completely avoided, but present theories of education tend to heighten, not to minimise it. The current theory that all talents should be ..."

5. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1902)
"Mr. T. ASPINALL, FCS, recapitulated the points of his paper, on how to minimise the effects of scale in steam boilers. Mr. DICKINSON : When this paper was ..."

6. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1888)
"How to Avoid and How to minimise their Disastrous Results. By Mr LAURENCE HILL. (SEE PLATE xxi.) Received and Read 20th March, 1888. ..."

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