The term minimum distance may refer to Minimum distance estimation, a statistical method for fitting a model to data Closest pair of points problem, the algorithmic problem of finding two points that have the minimum distance among a larger set of points Euclidean distance, the minimum length of any curve between two points in the plane Shortest path problem, the minimum length of a path between two points in a graph The minimum distance of a block code in coding theory, the smallest Hamming distance between any two of its code words