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minimal surfaces

minimal surfaces is the plural of minimal surface.

Meaning of minimal surface

Noun

minimal surface (plural minimal surfaces)

  1. Any surface that has the least possible surface area of those into which it could transform; typically the shapes of soap bubbles that span wire frames
  2. Any surface of vanishing mean curvature. Includes, but is not restricted to, surfaces of minimal area, as given by some boundary conditions.

Questions about minimal surfaces

What is minimal surfaces the plural of?
Minimal surfaces is the plural of minimal surface.

Words near minimal surfaces in the dictionary

  1. minimal primes
  2. minimal recursion semantics
  3. minimal state
  4. minimal states
  5. minimal surface
  6. minimal surfaces
  7. minimal viable product
  8. minimal viable products
  9. minimal wave
  10. minimalisation
  11. minimalisations

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