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Phrases 31
- maximum-securityHaving a high level of security, designed to house the most dangerous of prisoners.
- local maximumA maximum within a restricted domain; a point on a function whose value is greater than the values of all other points near it, especially if another local maximum of greater value is known to exist.
- Maximum value
- global maximumAn element in a function's domain where the function assumes its highest value.
- maximum breakThe highest score possible in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker, 147 in normal circumstances (excluding the case where the break starts with a free ball), achieved by potting all fifteen reds with fifteen blacks and then the six …
- Maximum-likelihood
- Maximum Speed
- Maximum power
- Maximum Capacity
- maximum cardA postcard with the stamp placed on the picture side of the card where the stamp and card match or are in concordance.
- maximum cutA cut whose size is at least the size of any other cut; a partition of the graph's vertices into two complementary sets S and T, such that the number of edges between S and T is as large as possible.
- maximum wageA legal limit on how much a person can earn; an institutional limit on how much a job role can earn (as for example military ranks or occupational specialties).
- solar maximumThe part of the sun's 11-year cycle during which the number of sunspots and solar flares is at a maximum.
- maximum attackDriving as fast as possible, particularly in motor racing.
- maximum cardsplural of maximum card: A postcard with the stamp placed on the picture side of the card where the stamp and card match or are in concordance.
- super-maximumAlternative form of supermaximum: supermax
- glacial maximumThe point during a glacial period when the ice sheets are at their greatest extent.
- maximum throughputThe highest rate at which data can be transmitted or processed in a system over a given period of time.
- interference maximumA spot in an interference pattern where the interfering waves are maximally constructive.
- maximum usable frequencyThe highest frequency that allows radio waves to be reflected off the ionosphere.
- maximum breaksplural of maximum break: The highest score possible in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker, 147 in normal circumstances (excluding the case where the break starts with a free ball), achieved by potting all fifteen reds with …
- maximum cutsplural of maximum cut: A cut whose size is at least the size of any other cut; a partition of the graph's vertices into two complementary sets S and T, such that the number of edges between S and T is as large as possible.
- maximum wagesplural of maximum wage: A legal limit on how much a person can earn; an institutional limit on how much a job role can earn (as for example military ranks or occupational specialties).
- maximum holding timeThe greatest amount of time in which a sample may be stored between sampling and the commencement of analysis and still be considered a valid sample for compliance testing.
- maximum holding timesplural of maximum holding time: The greatest amount of time in which a sample may be stored between sampling and the commencement of analysis and still be considered a valid sample for compliance testing.
Compound words 16
- maximalLargest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
- minimaxA decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.
- maximinA rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play.
- DymaxionA structure or device designed according to the futurist ideal of maximizing resource efficiency.
- ultramaximumGreater than maximum; supermaximal; ultramaximal.
- maxoutA certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.
- supermaximumsupermax
- antimaximumA maximum that has changed sign, caused by certain values of parameters.
- maximativeA form of adjective which expresses an upper bound.
- maximinflationThe practice of simultaneously making products smaller while increasing their prices.