MAXIMUM
\mˈaksɪməm], \mˈaksɪməm], \m_ˈa_k_s_ɪ_m_ə_m]\
Definitions of MAXIMUM
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
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The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; - opposed to minimum.
By Oddity Software
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Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
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The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; - opposed to minimum.
By Noah Webster.
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The greatest number, quantity, or degree possible; as, a maximum of good result: opposite to minimum.
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Greatest in quantity or highest in degree that can be or has been reached; highest allowed by law; as, the maximum price for wheat.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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The greatest.
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The greatest number, quantity, or degree: (math.) the value of a variable when it ceases to increase and begins to decrease:-pl. MAXIMA.
By Daniel Lyons
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The greatest.
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The greatest number, quantity, or degree attainable, in any given case; opposed to minimum, the smallest; the highest, as fixed by some law or regulation.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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