Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
maximum . - noun In medieval musical notation, same as
large , 2, when the latter was used in its precise sense as the next denomination above long.
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- noun Plural form of
maximum .
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Examples
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“The long-term maxima of surface air temperature occured in the central decades of the trefoil intervals”
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Short-term maxima in the most productive crop fields can be close to 5%, whereas even the tropical rain forests, the planet's most productive natural ecosystems, do not average more than 1%.
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In Georgics II, 146, Vergil repeats the phrase maxima taurus victima, but the phrase must have had its origin in the Catalepton, since here maxima balances humilis.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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We give below a table of barometrical maxima from the registrations of this city.
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Paul, but on a combination of the four attributes "maxima,"
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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"maxima," because we could barely see a thing on our computer screen.
PopWatch 2010
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While most are either maxima, moschata or pepo, the Cushaw is a strain of mixta.
Groundwork: A winter squash named Cushaw Adrian Higgins 2010
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The more chemically popular elements mentioned earlier have ionization energies that occur in neither the local maxima nor minima.
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Placement of the maximum tornado density in Mississippi, along with other regions of relative maxima across the Southeast, may warrant modification of the traditional tornado risk map that focuses only on the Great Plains
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Let's hope that Sanford's new found status as maxima personae non grata among SC Republicans will help him to decide to do the only honorable thing left for him in his career: RESIGN.
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