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maximum

(often as a noun-modifier) A maximum is the largest or highest value or amount. The maximum number of people we can accept is 25. They pay $50 a day up to a maximum of $300 per week.

maximum

(= maximal) the greatest or most complete or best possible maximal expansion maximum pressure the largest possible quantity (= utmost) the greatest possible degree he tried his utmost the point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right

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  • What words refer to the largest amount of something?

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Simple sentences

Note that the maximum doesn't always exist.
The relative humidity is the difference between the maximum humidity and the actual humidity expressed in percentages.
The maximum speed reached by the vehicle was 5 kilometers per hour.
A category 5 hurricane causes maximum damage.
She received the maximum sentence of ten years.
Over the course of about 11 years, our Sun cycles from a relatively quiet state to a peak in intense solar activity called a solar maximum.
Tom turned the volume to the maximum.
Please consider that the maximum doesn't exist in some circumstances.
The bus can carry a maximum of forty people.
You may spend a maximum of 100 dollars.
I got 80 marks out of a maximum of 100.
What is the maximum dosage for an adult?
That's the maximum.
Healthy food is essential for a healthy body and a healthy mind, and as a result, promotes maximum efficiency.
Tom is at a maximum security prison.
Tom turned the volume to maximum.

Movie subtitles

Maximum distance is about 270 meters.
They made one, the maximum.
My counteroffer is the absolute maximum.
The minimum? What's the maximum?
The maximum, I refuse to guess.
Since you still refuse to remember your name. but have pleaded guilty to trespass and atrocious assault, I will be as lenient as my conscience permits. and not impose upon you the maximum penalty your crimes ordinarily permit.
Build up the voltage potential to its maximum.
You know, of course, that sabres must not exceed the maximum weight of 60 decagrams?
I only played that scene to exasperate Rogozhin and get the maximum profit out of him, do you realize that now?
The hard-pressed ground troops were holding the airstrip only by effort beyond maximum.
A falling object descends earthwards at the rate of 32 feet a second, accelerating to the maximum speed of 176 feet a second.
Yes, a maximum of inefficiency.
A maximum security alert has been issued for the coastal zones in the Tokyo vicinity.
I want a maximum effort tonight.
It rises to a maximum, a lot of radio emission.
It then drops a bit, rises again to an even higher maximum and finally drops back to zero.
Altitude of 50,000 meters, maximum altitude.
Dr. Tobel awarded the maximum request for physics in 1939.
We regret to inform you that we are unable to admit you to our Conservatory, because you are older than the prescribed maximum age limit.
We have six minutes, maximum.
I'm afraid it ex ceeds the maximum size.
The pupils are enlarged to let in the maximum amount of low-intensity light.
Our ducks are only a maximum of a few grams different in weight.
What's the maximum?
Large charge - greatest penetration, maximum interval.
Pile operating at maximum power, Dr. Ronson.
Maximum revs.
Take her down. - Maximum angle, maximum depth.
Take her down. Maximum angle, maximum depth.
And we're at safe maximum depth already.
It might be 2 m wide maximum.

News and current affairs

Putting major drug traffickers behind bars at the new maximum-security prison at Pul-i-Charki, near Kabul, would be a good start.
For many species of coral, this bleaching threshold is usually only a couple of degrees centigrade above the typical maximum temperature for a given location.
As the American scholar and activist Hussein Ibish recently argued, Obama has appointed a cabinet designed to give him maximum room to negotiate a deal with Iran.
But they have not eschewed the use of variable capital and reserve requirements, loan-to-deposit ratios, and thresholds for minimum deposits and maximum leverage as controls on property lending.
There are no supply-siders in Italy except the referendum-rebels; in Italy everybody near government is playing the end game of accepting the existing system and getting the maximum out of it.
Maximum pensions for public employees relative to wages are nearly twice as high as in Spain; the government favors business elites with tax-free status; and some state employees draw their salaries without actually turning up for work.
Today is Europe's moment of maximum flexibility; as dependence on Russian energy supplies grows, the EU's leverage weakens.
If the Israel Defense Forces were the modern equivalent of the Nazis, it should be smashed with maximum force.
The law, for example, could be used to favor institutions (like the family) that incubate commitment, and to decentralize decision-making to the maximum practicable extent.
Their campaign has been more coordinated and intense than last time, with the aim of mobilizing the maximum number of supporters and ensuring a high turnout, which most commentators assume will assist the Yes side.
Yet, according to the European Commission and those same finance ministers, Ireland's fiscal posture may generate strong inflationary pressures in an already overheated economy and so merits maximum punishment.
In these ways, academics enable knowledge to do maximum work at minimal cost to its recipients.
Setting a maximum level of red blood cells actually levels the playing field by reducing the impact of the genetic lottery.
This means that the first scenario is more realistic: an integrated monetary and economic area with the maximum political independence of the regions.
But by declaring that he would not, under any circumstance, participate in military actions against Iraq, he undermined the efforts at the UN to put maximum pressure behind the demands that Iraq disarm.
Family capitalism in the continental European model uses relatively little capital to achieve maximum control.
That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.
Thus, for China to gain maximum advantage from private entrepreneurship, it is important to continue shifting the share of financial assets and land holdings out of the public sector.
Given the staggering amount of programming needed to fill the time slots, content monitoring must be implemented with maximum efficiency.
We were shown around the maximum-security wing.
Public-opinion surveys reveal an interesting dualism: the French want maximum freedom in the private sphere and maximum protection in the public sphere.
It is up to us to act, with maximum speed and full deployment of resources.
So that is where the US is now: in the middle of a financial crisis, with the economy sliding into recession, monetary policy already at maximum easing, and fiscal transfers impotent.
From their point of view, Israel must either convince the US to attack Iran and its nuclear plants or take on the maximum risk of using its own military forces to do so.
Most corporations, after all, are merely convenient mechanisms for ensuring that scarce global capital is used at maximum efficiency, to the benefit of all.
Joint transport ventures, for example, would have a strong political impact and maximum visibility, and would bring Maghreb citizens closer together physically and psychologically.

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