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Maximum   /mˈæksəməm/   Listen
Maximum

adjective
1.
The greatest or most complete or best possible.  Synonym: maximal.  "Maximum pressure"
noun
(pl. maxima)
1.
The largest possible quantity.  Synonym: upper limit.
2.
The greatest possible degree.  Synonyms: level best, utmost, uttermost.
3.
The point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right.



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... condenser. The pump valves are annular, of brass, faced with rubber, and close by brass spiral spiral springs. Their external diameter is six inches, and the lift is confined to 1/2 inch. There are 91 suction and 91 delivery valves at each end of the pump. The maximum speed of this pump is twenty-six double strokes ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various
... therefore, to listen again with the most breathless attention. As I moved my ears along the side of the place I was in, I found a mathematical point as it were, where the voices appeared to attain their maximum of intensity. The word forlorad again distinctly reached my ear. Then came again that rolling noise like thunder which had ...
— A Journey to the Centre of the Earth • Jules Verne
... favoured localities from 10 feet to 15 feet high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, slightly ferruginous beneath. Flowers rose and white, in dense clusters. There are several handsome varieties that vary to a wide extent in the size and colour of flowers. R. maximum album ...
— Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs • A. D. Webster
... the exodus of Puritans to New England occurred during the reign of Charles I, while the persecutions for witchcraft were increasing toward a maximum in the mother country, it is rather strange that so few cases occurred in the New World." New France and New England (pp. ...
— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor
... recommendations of the Register of Copyrights. The Librarian shall make appointments to such positions after consultation with the Register of Copyrights. Each Associate Register of Copyrights shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of ...
— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.


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