minimum

IPA: mˈɪnʌmʌm

The lowest limit.
The smallest amount.
(astronomy) A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
(mathematical analysis) A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
(statistics) The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

Examples of "minimum" in Sentences

There are some misconceptions about the use of the term minimum unit pricing...
In a report titled “The Endgame,” the VPC offered what they described as minimum standards.
Mngadi said tribal communities would no longer be satisfied with what he described as minimum royalties.
There is what we call a minimum equipment list of a certain number of oxygen canisters that are required for every size of every airplane.
There are no jobs hiding away in corners, and what jobs there are when you've got little experience and no qualifications are short term minimum wage jobs that may well see you off the dole for a few months before being dumped back.
As a measure that everyone could recognize, clinicians and researchers used the minimum amount of drug needed to kill bacteria, expressed as milligrams of drug per liter of blood, which they called the minimum inhibitory concentration, or MIC for short.