minimisation

Questions about minimisation

What does minimisation mean?

minimisation means "the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position".

How many syllables are in minimisation?

minimisation has 6 syllables and divides as mi-ni-mi-sa-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for minimisation?

Close synonyms include minimization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is minimisation a common word?

minimisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.