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noun
- The smallest.
- I can only afford to pay the of the bills.
adjective (infl, en, adjective, negative superlative)
- The smallest amount of something Appendix:Glossary
- uncountable, uncountable.
- He earns the money in his family.
- Of all the sisters, she has the patience.
- 1857, Edmund March Blunt, The American Coast Pilot: Containing Directions for the Principal Harbors, E. & G.W. Blunt, page 135:
- : The water we could find there was 4 fathoms, which bears from the point S.E., and is distant 1½ mile.
- 2004, Jim Baggott, Beyond Measure: Modern Physics, Philosophy, and the Meaning of Quantum Theory, Oxford University Press, page 48:
- : Light does not need to know in advance which is the path of least time because it takes all paths from its source to its destination.
- (obsolete, modern usage is, _, proscribed, or, only in poetic contexts) (form of, The superlative, little, nodot=none); the smallest.
- He earns the amount of money.
adverb (infl, en, adverb, negative superlative)
- Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est.
- It was the surprising thing.
Translations: - French: fr(fr, moindre}}; {{t+)moins
- Italian: meno(it)
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