minimos

Minimos is the plural form of minimo or mínimo in several Romance languages, notably Spanish and Portuguese. In these languages the word denotes the smallest value, degree, or amount, and it appears in both everyday speech and technical contexts. When written without diacritics, it can appear as minimos in ASCII texts.

In mathematics and optimization, minima refer to the points at which a function or sequence attains its smallest value. A local minimum is the smallest value in a neighborhood, while a global minimum is the absolute smallest value over the entire domain. The set of points achieving a minimum is called the minimizer set. Determining minima often involves calculus (examining derivatives and critical points) and algorithmic methods such as gradient descent or Newton’s method. Convexity guarantees a unique global minimum for a convex function.

In statistics and econometrics, phrases like métodos de mínimos (least-squares methods) are common, describing procedures that minimize a loss or error measure to fit models to data. When discussing multiple parameters or solutions, one may refer to the “mínimos” of a loss function to indicate the smallest attained values across different candidates.

In linguistics and lexicography, mínimo and its plural mínimos function as adjectives or nouns describing the least degree or value. The form minimos may also appear in historical texts or non-accented spellings in databases and multilingual writings.

Overall, minimos is primarily a language-based plural form tied to the concept of minima, with mathematical and statistical usage centered on identifying least values, whether locally or globally.