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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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]: | |
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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. | |
