minion
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Definitions ofminion
- The lowest limit.
Example: "We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time."
- The smallest amount.
Example: "He always tries to get away with doing the minimum."
- A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
Example: "The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth."
- A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
- A loyal servant of another, usually a more powerful being.
Example: "The archvillain deployed his minions to simultaneously rob every bank in the city."
- A sycophantic follower.
- A loved one; one highly esteemed and favoured.
- An ancient form of ordnance with a calibre of about three inches.
- The size of type between nonpareil and brevier, standardized as 7-point.
- Favoured, beloved; "pet".
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