Usually means: Maximizing or minimizing within constraints.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (extremal)

adjective:  (mathematics) Relating to extrema (maximal or minimal).
noun:  (mathematics) Any solution to a variety of equations in the calculus of variations.

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