Usually means: Greatest or highest extent possible.
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  1. maximum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maximum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maximum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maximum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maximum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Maximum, maximum: Wordnik
  7. maximum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. maximum: Wiktionary
  9. maximum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maximum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maximum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. maximum: Dictionary.com
  13. maximum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. maximum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Maximum (MAX album), Maximum (Murat Boz album), Maximum (comics), Maximum (disambiguation), Maximum (film), Maximum (mathematics), Maximum (song), Maximum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Maximum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. maximum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. maximum: Rhymezone
  19. Maximum (nt), maximum, maximum (het), maximum (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. maximum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. maximum: Free Dictionary
  22. maximum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. maximum: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. maximum: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maximum: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. maximum: Medical dictionary

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  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. maximum: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Maximum: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
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  5. maximum: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maximum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. maximum: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See maxima as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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