minification
- noun
- /ˌmɪnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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minificación
- The web developer implemented minification to reduce the size of the website's JavaScript files.
Examples
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Their visual efficiency has been shown not to improve significantly with the use of reverse telescopes (Krefman, 1981), because spatial location becomes more difficult (Weiss, 1991), and their visual acuity suffers because of the minification.
Academic text (2004) -
An amorphic lens is a cylindrical reverse telescope with minification only in the horizontal meridian.
Academic text (2004) -
By applying minification, the application's loading time was greatly improved.
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The process of minification helped decrease the size of the images on the webpage, making it load faster.
Synonyms
451
3.2
A decrease in size, amount, degree, or price
34
4.4
A process of becoming smaller in size or amount
7
3.2
A decrease in size, amount, or value
5
7.5
Making things much smaller using new technology
5
5.1
A decrease in size, amount, or value
5
5.5
The act of making something as small as possible
5
7.9
A decrease in size, amount, or importance
4
6.7
A decrease in size, strength or importance
4
3.8
A decrease in amount, size, or strength
4
3.5
Making something shorter in length, time or size
2
4.0
A drop in the number or amount of something
Becoming less in size, number, amount or importance
Antonyms
How Small
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Minification comes from the small root mini-, as in miniskirt, and the ending -fication which means 'making'. So minification is the process of 'making small', which is why it means making something smaller in size.