Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word MAXIMUM

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Definitions of MAXIMUM

1. To the highest degree.
2. The highest limit.
3. (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
4. (analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
5. (statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
6. (snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.
7. (colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts.
8. (colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs.
9. (colloquial) maximum security

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Examples of Using MAXIMUM in a Sentence

• A few specimens indicate a maximum length of 11–30% greater than average and a mass of approximately.
• In the case of "stellar" or "annual" aberration, the apparent position of a star to an observer on Earth varies periodically over the course of a year as the Earth's velocity changes as it revolves around the Sun, by a maximum angle of approximately 20 arcseconds in right ascension or declination.
• The curl at a point in the field is represented by a vector whose length and direction denote the magnitude and axis of the maximum circulation.
• The compression ratio is the ratio between the volume of the cylinder and combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine at their maximum and minimum values.
• The maximum length, east to west, is 390 km from Punta de Agua to Las Lajas, on the border with Haiti.
• They are located throughout the entire country, including the islands, and have a maximum distance of 40–60 km in between.
• The film, set in the near-future world of 1997, concerns a crime-ridden United States, which has converted Manhattan Island in New York City into the country's sole maximum security prison.
• In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract.
• It has several general and specific meanings, including a policy of maximum openness in the activities of state institutions and freedom of information and the inadmissibility of hushing up problems.
• The Holocene correlates with the last maximum axial tilt of the Earth towards the Sun, and corresponds with the rapid proliferation, growth, and impacts of the human species worldwide, including all of its written history, technological revolutions, development of major civilizations, and overall significant transition towards urban living in the present.
• The holographic principle was inspired by the Bekenstein bound of black hole thermodynamics, which conjectures that the maximum entropy in any region scales with the radius , rather than cubed as might be expected.
• The Isle of Man has a coastline of , and a territorial sea extending to a maximum of 12 nm from the coast, or the midpoint between it and other countries.
• IGRP was created in part to overcome the limitations of RIP (maximum hop count of only 15, and a single routing metric) when used within large networks.
• 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
• 365 – The 365 Crete earthquake affected the Greek island of Crete with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), causing a destructive tsunami that affects the coasts of Libya and Egypt, especially Alexandria.
• There are two categories of controlled-access highways in Lithuania: expressways (Lithuanian: greitkeliai) with maximum speed 120 km/h and motorways (Lithuanian: automagistralės) with maximum speed 130 km/h.
• Minimax (sometimes Minmax, MM or saddle point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case (maximum loss) scenario.
• In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit (MTU) is the size of the largest protocol data unit (PDU) that can be communicated in a single network layer transaction.
• The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs (sets of 6 legal balls), usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played.
• Physical constants can take many dimensional forms: the speed of light signifies a maximum speed for any object and its dimension is length divided by time; while the proton-to-electron mass ratio, is dimensionless.

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