Meaning

• The lowest limit.

  "We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all time."

• The smallest amount.

  "He always tries to get away with doing the minimum."

• A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

  "The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth."

• A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

• The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

Meaning

• To the lowest degree.