minima
Noun
The word is derived from minimum
Meaning
of Minimum
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Activation energy can be thought of as the height of the potential barrier (sometimes called the energy barrier) separating two minima of potential energy (of the reactants and products of a reaction).
Even though nature has reduced the level of frustration in proteins, some degree of it remains up to now as can be observed in the presence of local minima in the energy landscape of proteins.
Derivatives are frequently used to find the maxima and minima of a function.
Hence, diffraction patterns usually have a series of maxima and minima.
If the function is differentiable, the minima and maxima can only occur at critical points or endpoints.
If the two beams are of equal intensity, the maxima are four times as bright as the individual beams, and the minima have zero intensity.