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minify
English
Etymology
mini- +? -fy
Verb
minify (third-person singular simple present minifies, present participle minifying, simple past and past participle minified)
- To make smaller.
- 1887, Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, "Bibliography: Modern Works"
- Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
- 1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light, Pocket Books Inc., page 170:
- There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them.
- 1887, Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists, "Bibliography: Modern Works"
- To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase the field of view, such as a convex or aspheric mirror or a Fresnel lens
- 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10:
- But, mused Parker, this theory of one's perplexities being diminished by the vastly superior height of these Gothic arches cannot have any foundation in fact, for the same inverted telescope that minifies my burdens also minifies my capacity to carry them, leaving me exactly of the same stature as before.
- 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, Green Light, Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 10:
- (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time.
- 2008, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, O'Reilly, page 69:
- When code is minified, all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).
- 2008, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, O'Reilly, page 69:
Antonyms
- magnify
Related terms
- minification (noun form)
- 2010, Stoyan Stefanov, JavaScript Patterns, O'Reilly, page 36:
- Minification is the process of eliminating white space, comments, and other non-essential parts of the JavaScript code to decrease the size of the JavaScript files that need to be transferred from the server to the browser.
- 2010, Stoyan Stefanov, JavaScript Patterns, O'Reilly, page 36:
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magnify
English
Alternative forms
- magnifie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French magnifier, from Latin magnific?re, from magnificus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ma?n?fa?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?mæ?n?fa?/
Verb
magnify (third-person singular simple present magnifies, present participle magnifying, simple past and past participle magnified)
- (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God). [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:
- For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
- For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity [...].
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts X:
- (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate. [from 17th c.]
- (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc. [from 17th c.]
- (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
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Derived terms
- magnifier
- magnifying glass
- magnification
Related terms
- minify (opposite)
Translations
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