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Minim
Minim may refer to: * Minim (music), a note length, British English name for a half note (which usually gets two beats) * MINIM (band), an industrial rock band from Spain * Minim (unit), a small amount of fluid, essentially a standardized drop * Minim (religious order), a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Paula ** Franciscan Minims of the Perpetual Help of Mary * Minim (palaeography), a short vertical stroke used in handwriting * Minim, a Hebrew word denoting "sectarians" (e.g. Sadducees, Nazoraeans, etc.); see Heresy in Judaism * Minim Inc., Minim Inc, An American networking company. * Minim, Martap, a village in Cameroon * Minim, in leafcutter ant colonies, member of the caste of smallest-sized workers * Mini-M, also known as Inmarsat#Networks, Inmarsat-M, a global satellite internet, telephony and fax network operated by Inmarsat *Minim, French for "little one", was used at the University of Notre Dame from the 1840s to the 1920s to describe students in their gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minimum
In mathematical analysis, the maxima and minima (the respective plurals of maximum and minimum) of a function, known collectively as extrema (the plural of extremum), are the largest and smallest value of the function, either within a given range (the ''local'' or ''relative'' extrema), or on the entire domain (the ''global'' or ''absolute'' extrema). Pierre de Fermat was one of the first mathematicians to propose a general technique, adequality, for finding the maxima and minima of functions. As defined in set theory, the maximum and minimum of a set are the greatest and least elements in the set, respectively. Unbounded infinite sets, such as the set of real numbers, have no minimum or maximum. Definition A real-valued function ''f'' defined on a domain ''X'' has a global (or absolute) maximum point at ''x''∗, if for all ''x'' in ''X''. Similarly, the function has a global (or absolute) minimum point at ''x''∗, if for all ''x'' in ''X''. The value of the function at a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
