ViaFrench fromLatinmaximum.
- IPA(key): /ˈmæksɪməm/
- Hyphenation:max‧i‧mum
maximum (pluralmaximaormaximums)
- Thehighestlimit.
1806, P. Colquhoun,A Treatise on Indigence:This is the fundamental principle of good legislation. It is the art of conducting a nation to themaximum of happiness and the minimum of misery
- (mathematics) Thegreatestvalue of aset or other mathematical structure, especially theglobal maximum or alocal maximum of afunction.
- (mathematical analysis) Anupperbound of a set which is also anelement of that set.
- (statistics) The largestvalue of abatch orsample or theupperbound of aprobability distribution.
- (snooker) A 147break; the highest possible break.
- Synonyms:147,maximum break
- (colloquial, darts) Ascore of180 with threedarts.
- (colloquial, cricket) A scoringshot for 6runs.
- (colloquial)maximum security
1983 April 23, Alice Thompson, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, page15:I just got out ofmaximum 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.
highest limit
- Armenian:մաքսիմում (hy)(makʻsimum)
- Bulgarian:максимум (bg) m(maksimum)
- Catalan:màxim (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:最大 (zh)(zuìdà),極大 /极大 (zh)(jídà)
- Czech:maximum (cs) n
- Esperanto:maksimumo
- Finnish:maksimi (fi),yläraja
- French:maximum (fr) m
- Galician:máximo (gl) m
- Georgian:მაქსიმუმი(maksimumi),არაუმეტესი(araumeṭesi)
- German:Maximum (de) n,höchstmöglich
- Greek:ανώτατο όριο n(anótato ório),άκρον άωτον (el) n(ákron áoton)
- Hebrew:מַקסִימוּם m(maximum),מֵרַב (he) m(mēráv)
- Hindi:अधिकतम (hi)(adhiktam),सबसेज़्यादा(sabse zyādā)
- Ido:maximo (io)
- Indonesian:maksimum (id),plafon (id),pagu (id)
- Italian:massimo (it) m
- Japanese:最大 (ja)(さいだい, saidai),極大(きょくだい, kyokudai)
- Latin:maximum (la)
- Malay:maksimum (ms)
- Maori:mōrahi,tihi
- Persian:بیشینه (fa)(bišine),ماکسیمم (fa)(mâksimom)
- Polish:maksimum (pl)
- Portuguese:máximo (pt) m
- Romanian:maximum (ro),maxim (ro) n
- Russian:ма́ксимум (ru) m(máksimum)
- Spanish:máximo (es) m,máximum m
- Swedish:maximum (sv) n
- Telugu:గరిష్ఠం(gariṣṭhaṁ)
- Turkish:en fazla
- Vietnamese:cực điểm (vi)
- Welsh:uchafswm (cy)
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statistics: largest value of a batch
maximum (notcomparable)
- To the highest degree.
- Synonym:maximal
Use the proper dose for themaximum effect.
maximum n
- maximum
- Antonym:minimum
Declension ofmaximum (hard neuter foreign)
- “maximum”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
- “maximum”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
- “maximum”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025
Borrowed fromLatinmaximum.
- IPA(key): /ˈmɑk.siˌmʏm/
- Hyphenation:ma‧xi‧mum
maximum n (pluralmaximaormaximums,diminutivemaximumpje n)
- maximum
maximum m (pluralmaximaormaximums)
- maximum
maximum
- inflection ofmaximus:
- nominative/accusative/vocativeneutersingular
- accusativemasculinesingular
Borrowed fromFrenchmaximum.
maximum n (uncountable)
- maximum
