minification

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minification

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From mini- + -ification.

noun minifications

countable, uncountable The reduction in apparent size of 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.
countable, uncountable The removal of white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to reduce its size and improve download time. 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.

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@misc{minification_2026,
  title = {minification},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/minification},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}