maximum
The highest limit.
Adjective
- To the highest degree.
- Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.
- Each Piccadilly Line train consists of seven cars, the construction of the stations below ground making this the maximum length. - 1960 March 5, “New Stock for the Piccadilly Line of London Transport”, in Railway...
Synonyms: extreme maximal ultimate ferocious exquisite intense almighty greatest highest maximum passing raging utmost uttermost
Origin
Via French from Latin maximum.
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Derived
antimaximum Dymaxion glacial maximum global maximum interference maximum local maximum maximal maximative maximin maximize maximon maximum attack maximum break maximum card maximum cut maximum holding time maximum limit maximumly maximum permitted mileage maximum security maximum-security maximum seek time maximum throughput maximum usable frequency
Noun
- The highest limit.
- This is the fundamental principle of good legislation. It is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness and the minimum of misery - 1806, P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence:
- The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
- An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
- The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
- A 147 break; the highest possible break.
Synonyms: 147 maximum break
- A score of 180 with three darts.
- A scoring shot for 6 runs.
- maximum security
- I just got out of maximum where I did 4 months for an arguent I had in the serving area. - 1983 April 23, Alice Thompson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15: