min-max

[ min-maks ]

verb (used with object)

, min-maxed, min-max·ing.

1. (in a video game or role-playing game) to optimize (a character) by assigning all, or nearly all, skill points to the ability essential to that character’s success in a specified role and environment, and no points to other skills, rather than distributing skill points more evenly across attributes.

Word History and Origins

Origin of min-max¹

First recorded in 2005–10; min(imum) ( def ) + max(imum) ( def )

Example Sentences

A min-max thermometer records high and low temperatures, valuable information for winter freezes and tracking our ever-warming summers.

From Seattle Times

It’s basically a video game, and you’re trying to min-max human life based on which people you think most deserve to live and how active you are willing to be in their death.

From The Verge

The Conservatives' 2008 paper called for an end to automatic halfway-stage release and a new system of "min-max" sentences in England and Wales, with judges setting a minimum and maximum period to be spent in jail.

From BBC

It's a variation on the "min-max" idea, with no automatic release at the halfway point.

From BBC

But she's concerned that any move to a system whereby the sentence expressed in court becomes the sentence served, or a "min-max"' arrangement, would lead to longer spells in custody.

From BBC