This paper gives the following definition of a relatively minimal variety:a relatively minimal variety $X'$ over a base $Y$ is a projective variety with at most $\mathbb{Q}$-factorial terminal singularities which has an extremal ray contraction $\phi: X'\to Y$ of fiber type, i.e., $\dim Y<\dim X$.
Charles Siegel
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