basic vs minimum

basic

adj
  • Of or pertaining to a base; having a pH greater than 7. 

  • Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional. 

  • Unremarkable or uninteresting; boring; uncool. 

  • Necessary, essential for life or some process. 

noun
  • An elementary building block, e.g. a fundamental piece of knowledge. 

  • A necessary commodity, a staple requirement. 

  • Basic training. 

minimum

adj
  • To the lowest degree. 

noun
  • The smallest amount. 

  • He always tries to get away with doing the minimum. 

  • The lowest limit. 

  • A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star). 

  • The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution. 

  • A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set. 

How often have the words basic and minimum occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )