Minimisation

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Minimisation or minimization may refer to:

• Minimisation (psychology), downplaying the significance of an event or emotion
• Minimisation (clinical trials)
• Minimisation (code) or Minification, removing unnecessary characters from source code
• Structural risk minimization
• Boolean minimization, a technique for optimizing combinational digital circuits
• Cost-minimization analysis, in pharmacoeconomics
• Expenditure minimization problem, in microeconomics
• Waste minimisation
• Harm reduction
• Maxima and minima, in mathematical analysis
• Minimal element of a partial order, in mathematics
• Minimax approximation algorithm
• Minimisation operator ("μ operator"), the add-on to primitive recursion to obtain μ-recursive functions in computer science