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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

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