Minimum

Examples

• The ovens are highly insulated with a thick packing of best grade mineral wool, which reduces air leakage to a minimum and retains the heat generated for a long period. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This is to reduce to a minimum the sound of the balls dropping on and rolling down the bed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• General Ord will leave behind the minimum number of cavalry necessary for picket duty, in the absence of the main army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Now that a reliable formula is at hand a quantity of this Wonder Liniment can be prepared at a minimum cost without paying for bottles, labels, advertising, salaries, rents, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It is self-evident that an ideal kiln would be one that produced the maximum quantity of thoroughly clinkered material with a minimum amount of fuel, labor, and investment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This means a minimum of friction, therefore the least wear on the machine and the least exertion on the part of the operator. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But I've got to keep enough people here for the bare minimum necessary to carry the orders out. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Work was therefore pushed with great vigor on the defences, to enable the minimum number of troops to hold the fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Kindly write upon it I am perfectly willing to act as business manager to the Franco-Midland Hardware Company, Limited, at a minimum salary of L500. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• But when you are engaged in scientific investigation, you try to reduce the spontaneous in life to a minimum. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This seems to carry with it, as a necessary corollary, the establishment of some minimum standard of education for everyone. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The later construction has been designed for a minimum speed of twenty-five knots an hour, with a possible attainment of thirty knots or over, under favorable conditions. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• He reasoned that the advantages thus obtained would be fourfold: a minimum of machinery and parts; greater compactness; a saving of power; and greater economy in mining. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In unskilled forms of labor, the intellectual factors are at minimum precisely because the habits involved are not of a high grade. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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