minify

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minify

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From mini- + -fy.

verb minifies · minifying · minified

To make smaller. Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism.
Similar: minimize
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. 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 b
To remove white space and unnecessary characters from source code in order to reduce its size. When code is minified, all comments are removed, as well as unneeded whitespace characters (space, newline, and tab).
Similar: uglify · Opposite: pretty-print, beautify, prettify

Opposite: magnify

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verb

Opposite: magnify

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verb to make smaller

日本語	縮小する shukushō suru, 小さくする chiisaku suru, 縮める chizimeru
Deutsch	verkleinern

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@misc{minify_2026,
  title = {minify},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/minify},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}