Definition of "minimum" []

• The least possible quantity or degree. (noun)
• The lowest degree or amount reached or recorded; the lower limit of variation. (noun)
• A lower limit permitted by law or other authority. (noun)
• A sum of money set by a nightclub or restaurant as the least amount each patron must spend on food and drink. (noun)
• Mathematics The smallest number in a finite set of numbers. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There are some misconceptions about the use of the term minimum unit pricing..."
• "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."
• "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."