Usually means: Optimal strategy minimizing maximum possible loss.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimax: Merriam-Webster
  2. minimax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. minimax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. minimax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. minimax: Wordnik
  6. minimax: Wiktionary
  7. minimax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. minimax: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. minimax: Dictionary.com
  10. Minimax (Spanish TV channel), Minimax (TV channel), Minimax (disambiguation), Minimax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. minimax: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. minimax: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Minimax: Game Dictionary
  3. minimax: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. minimax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. minimax: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (minimax)

noun:  (decision theory, game theory) A decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.
verb:  To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.

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