单词 | minimality |
释义 | minimalityn. 1. Mathematics. The quality or fact of being minimal (minimal adj. 3). ΚΠ 1936 F. J. Murray & J. von Neumann in Ann. Math. 37 124 The notion of minimality. The minimality criterion. 1937 Ann. Math. 38 490 π(t) cannot be a factor of π1*(t) because of the minimality of π*(t). 1951 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 539 Hence STn−1S is also nilpotent which is a contradiction to the minimality of n. 1979 Proc. London Math. Soc. 38 266 We cannot simply appeal to the minimality of F1 to embed it in T1, since the composite F → T → T1 is not a dense embedding. 1990 Glasgow Math. Jrnl. 32 339 The set of all dp-maps between such spaces conincides with that of all dh-maps. This becomes clear once it is noted that any dh-map preserves maximality and minimality. 2. Linguistics. The quality or character of being minimal (minimal adj. 4). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] > specific features of linguistic analysis structuring1890 over-differentiation1921 hypostasis1933 contextualization1934 scatter1934 opposition1936 minimality1953 mapping1955 biuniqueness1959 linearity1959 n-gram1963 meta-condition1972 optionality1972 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form i. 10 The criterion of minimality is fulfilled in either case. 1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics ii. 29 What can be done, however, is to apply the criterion of minimality after the establishment of the several meaning-relations between sentences in context. 1969 Word 25 235 Because of the minimality requirement in the definition of the morpheme, the second class is not equivalent to a class of bound morphemes. 1986 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 31 11 Koster..has suggested that minimality of domain for the R-relation is subject to parametric variation. 3. Simplicity and lack of adornment in art, writing, etc.; minimalism. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > late 19th and 20th centuries > [noun] > minimalism minimalism1929 reductivism1967 minimality1969 1969 E. Lucie-Smith Movements in Art since 1945 viii. 242 Judd's colleague, Robert Morris, defends minimality in equally emphatic terms. 1994 J. Barth Once upon Time 287 The story's very blackness and minimality were cathartic. 1998 Sentinel (Stoke-on-Trent) (Nexis) 13 June 11 The outdoor settings were stark to the point of minimality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936 |
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