MAXIMUM meaning: Greatest or highest extent possible

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Maximum (MAX album), Maximum (Murat Boz album), Maximum (comics), Maximum (disambiguation), Maximum (film), Maximum (mathematics), Maximum (song), Maximum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (maximum)

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

Similar:

maximal, utmost, uttermost, level best, outside, supreme, top, upper limit, peak, greatest, more...

Opposite:

minimum, least, lowest, smallest, minimal

Types:

maximum speed, maximum height, maximum weight, maximum width, maximum depth, maximum temperature, maximum pressure, maximum volume, maximum entropy, more...

Phrases:

maximum likelihood, maximum temperature, maximum power, maximum velocity, maximum security, more...

Adjectives:

local, absolute, last, theoretical, glacial, second, global, secondary, average, daily, certain

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, vermilion, ruby, firebrick, more...