small indefinite amount vs minimum

minimum vs small indefinite amount

small indefinite amount and minimum both are nouns.

small indefinite amount is not an adjective while minimum is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
small indefinite amount	Yes	No	No	No
minimum	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, minimum is a hyponym of small indefinite amount; that is, minimum is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than small indefinite amount:

small indefinite amount: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
minimum: the smallest possible quantity

Other hyponyms of small indefinite amount include helping, portion, serving, mouthful, taste, crumb, dab, splash, splatter, bit, spot, hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth, whisker, modicum, scattering, sprinkling, shoe string, shoestring, spray, spraying, nose, step, stone's throw, little, schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, shade, tad, lower limit, morsel, handful, smattering, couple, drib, driblet, drop, dollop, dreg, diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat, nip, shot, hint, suggestion, tint, trace, iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit, tot, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.

small indefinite amount (noun)	minimum (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude	the point on a curve where the tangent changes from negative on the left to positive on the right
	the smallest possible quantity

small indefinite amount (adjective)	minimum (adjective)
	the least possible

Difference between small indefinite amount and minimum

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