Usually means: Largest or most extreme possible.
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  1. maximal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maximal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maximal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maximal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maximal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maximal, maximal: Wordnik
  7. maximal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. maximal: Wiktionary
  9. maximal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maximal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maximal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. maximal: Dictionary.com
  13. Maximal (Transformers), Maximal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. maximal: Rhymezone
  15. maximal: Free Dictionary
  16. maximal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. maximal: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. maximal: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maximal: Encyclopedia

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  2. maximal: Medical dictionary

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  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)
  2. maximal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. maximal: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
adjective:  (mathematics, of a sequence) Larger than any previous term in the sequence.
adjective:  (mathematics, of an element of a poset) Such that no other element is greater (with respect to the given partial order).
noun:  (mathematics) The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.
noun:  (mathematics) Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice: that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).
noun:  (logic) Said of a set of well-formed formulas: that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula φ, the set contains either φ or ~φ.

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