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minorant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mi-no-rant
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A function, all of whose values are not greater than the corresponding values of another function.

Etymology

Borrowed from French minorant, present participle of minorer (“to diminish”), from Latin minor. By surface analysis, minor + -ant.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

minorants (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

majorant

Questions

What does minorant mean?
A function, all of whose values are not greater than the corresponding values of another function.
Where does minorant come from?
It is traced to French.

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