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subminimal

adj

Etymology

From sub- + minimal.

  1. learned borrowing from minimum
  2. suffixed as minimal — “minimum + al”
  3. prefixed as subminimal — “sub + minimal”

Definitions

  1. Below a minimal value.

    • The fact that event predicates that denote subminimal P-events need to obey even stricter contextual restrictions was derived on the basis of scalar inferences, plus the assumption that subminimal events never occur in their own right.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for subminimal. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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