maximum

Via French from Latin maximum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmæksɪməm/
• Hyphenation: max‧i‧mum

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maximum (plural maxima or maximums)

1. The highest limit.
   • 1806, P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence:

     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

2. (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
3. (mathematical analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
4. (statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
5. (snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.

   Synonyms: 147, maximum break

6. (colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts.
7. (colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs.
8. (colloquial) maximum security
   • 1983 April 23, Alice Thompson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:

     I just got out of maximum where I did 4 months for an arguent I had in the serving area.

• Maxima is the more common plural, especially for the technical senses.

• max

• minimum

• (statistics): measure of location
• extremum

maximum (not comparable)

1. To the highest degree.

   Synonym: maximal

   Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.

• supremum

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaksɪmum]

maximum n

1. maximum

   Antonym: minimum

• See maxim

• “maximum”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “maximum”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “maximum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin maximum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑk.siˌmʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧xi‧mum

maximum n (plural maxima or maximums, diminutive maximumpje n)

1. maximum

• minimum

• maximumleeftijd
• maximumloon
• maximumsnelheid

• maximaal

• Afrikaans: maksimum

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• IPA^(key): /mak.si.mɔm/

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maximum m (plural maxima or maximums)

1. maximum

• grand maximum
• maximal

• “maximum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmak.sɪ.mũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmak.si.mum]

maximum

1. inflection of maximus:
   1. accusative masculine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular

Borrowed from French maximum.

maximum n (uncountable)

1. maximum