What is the purpose of minimize?
Alternatively called a collapse box, minimize box, and minimize button, minimize is an action in GUI operating systems to hide a window, but keep the program running in the background.
What does it mean to minimize a screen?
When you minimize a window, you hide it from view. This is commonly done to unclutter the display or to view other open windows without closing the current window. In Windows, minimizing a window will create a button for it in the taskbar.