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
See also Optimization (mathematics) Minimal (disambiguation) Minimalism (disambiguation) Minification (disambiguation) Maximisation (disambiguation) Magnification Plateau's problem