minorant
French, noun/mi.nɔ.ʁɑ̃/
minorant is spelled M-I-N-O-R-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Minorant is a French masculine noun meaning “lower bound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a present participle of minorer. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Désigne une quantité inférieure ou égale à tous les éléments d’un ensemble spécifié”.
What does minorant mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinelower bound
verb
- 1
present participle of minorer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Désigne une quantité inférieure ou égale à tous les éléments d’un ensemble spécifié.
adjective: 1. Qui minore.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of minorant
- minorants plural
- minorante singular feminine
- minorantes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce minorant?
- /mi.nɔ.ʁɑ̃/
- \mi.nɔ.ʁɑ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is minorant in French?
minorant appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).