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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maximum \Max"i*mum\, a.
Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or
attained; as a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum
pressure; maximum heat.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maximum \Max"i*mum\, n.; pl {Maxima}. [L., neut. from maximus
the greatest. See {Maxim}.]
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}.
Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to
the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.
--P.
Colquhoun
{Maximum thermometer}, a thermometer that registers the
highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or
since its last adjustment.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
maximum
adj : the greatest or most complete or best possible; "maximal
expansion"; "maximum pressure" [syn: {maximal}] [ant: {minimal},
{minimal}]
n 1: the largest possible quantity [syn: {upper limit}] [ant: {minimum}]
2: the greatestest possible degree; "he tried his utmost" [syn:
{utmost}, {uttermost}, {level best}]
3: the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive
on the left to negative on the right [ant: {minimum}]
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