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Noun: infimum  in-fi-mum or in'fI-mum
  1. (mathematics, of a subset) the greatest element of the containing set that is smaller or equal to all elements of the subset
    "The infimum of the set of positive real numbers is zero";
    - greatest lower bound

Derived forms: infimums

Encyclopedia: Infimum