Minimisation or minimization may refer to: *

Minimisation (psychology) Minimisation or minimization is a type of deceptionGuerrero, L., Anderson, P., Afifi, W. (2007). ''Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships'' (2nd ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications. {{ISBN? involving denial coupled with rationalisati ...

, downplaying the significance of an event or emotion * Minimisation (clinical trials) *

Minimisation (code) Minification (also minimisation or minimization) is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from the source code of interpreted programming languages or markup languages without changing its functionality. These unnecessary characters ...

or Minification, removing unnecessary characters from source code *

Structural risk minimization Structural risk minimization (SRM) is an inductive principle of use in machine learning. Commonly in machine learning, a generalized model must be selected from a finite data set, with the consequent problem of overfitting – the model becomin ...

* Boolean minimization, a technique for optimizing combinational digital circuits * Cost-minimization analysis, in pharmacoeconomics * Expenditure minimization problem, in microeconomics * Waste minimisation *

Harm reduction Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. Harm reduction is used to de ...

Maxima and minima 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 r ...

, in mathematical analysis *

Minimal element In mathematics, especially in order theory, a maximal element of a subset ''S'' of some preordered set is an element of ''S'' that is not smaller than any other element in ''S''. A minimal element of a subset ''S'' of some preordered set is defi ...

of a partial order, in mathematics *

Minimax approximation algorithm A minimax approximation algorithm (or L∞ approximation or uniform approximation) is a method to find an approximation of a mathematical function that minimizes maximum error. For example, given a function f defined on the interval ,b/math> and ...

* Minimisation operator ("μ operator"), the add-on to primitive recursion to obtain μ-recursive functions in computer science

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