Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A lessening; diminution.
- noun In medicine, mild purgation by laxatives.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A diminution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete
Reduction ;lessening . - noun mathematics Minorization.
Etymologies
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From Late Latin minoratio, from the participle stem of Latin minōrāre.
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Examples
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Je suis partisan d'une minoration drastique du poids des Sciences Humaines en France au profit des vraies Sciences.
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gItaly segmenth: minoration coefficients applied on positions on debt securities issued by Italy:
The Guardian World News Graeme Wearden 2011
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