Dictionary

minify en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From mini- + -fy.

Meanings

1. To make smaller.
   • There must be something in the appeal of the Gothic that minifies one group of values leaving other considerations untouched, or actually magnifying them. 1942, Lloyd C. Douglas, “Green Light”, in Inc., Pocket Books, page 170:
   • Schneckenburger strives to make it appear that Baur unduly minifies the Christian element in Manichæism. 1887, Philip Schaff, “Bibliography: Modern Works”, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 4: Augustine: The Writings Against the Manichaeans and Against the Donatists:
2. 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 before. 1935, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 10, in Green Light, Houghton Mifflin:
3. 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). 2008, Steve Souders, High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers,, O'Reilly, page 69:

Forms

Antonyms

magnify (antonym(s) of “make smaller”) · pretty-print · prettify · magnify (antonym(s) of “reduce in apparent size”) · beautify

Deriveds

unminified · minifier

Relateds

minification

Synonyms

minimize (make smaller) · uglify

Translations (12)

ja 小さくする (to make smaller) · cs minifikovat (to make smaller) · pl pomniejszać (to make smaller) · pl pomniejszyć (to make smaller) · de verkleinern (to make smaller) · bg намалявам (to make smaller) · ja 縮める (to make smaller) · cs redukovat (to make smaller) · cs minimalizovat (to make smaller) · cs zmenšit (to make smaller) · ja 縮小する (to make smaller) · eo malgrandigi (to make smaller)