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maximal, a.|ˈmæksɪməl|
[f. maximum + -al1.]
Consisting of, or relating to, a maximum; greatest possible; of a size or duration not to be exceeded.
1882V. Idelson in Lond. Med. Rec. No. 36. 318 The average increase is equal to 8 millimètres maximal to 17 millimètres. 1883T. L. Brunton in Nature 8 Mar. 438 The maximal contraction of which the tissue is capable. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 470 It [sc. blood-pressure in the ventricle] slowly increases throughout the systole becoming maximal immediately prior to relaxation. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Apr. 107/2 The tradition of an insistence on maximal loyalty—the tradition of hyper⁓patriotism—is an old one in the United States, and it becomes very demanding in periods of crisis. 1958E. Winter in Middleton & Tait Tribes without Rulers 140 What is termed the maximal lineage consists of all the descendants in the male line of a single eponymous ancestor. 1960P. Suppes Axiomatic Set Theory viii. 244 A is a maximal chain in B if and only if A is a chain in B and there is no chain C in B such that A ⊂ C. 1963W. V. Quine Set Theory x. 231 There are notable equivalents of the axiom of choice... One is Hausdorff's law that every partial ordering harbors a maximal ordering. 1964E. Mendelson Introd. Math. Logic 10 A maximal ideal is a proper ideal which is included in no other proper ideal. 1971D. Crystal Ling. 199 The investigation of grammatical models in terms of maximal units. Ibid. 201 The sentence is the maximal unit of grammatical analysis. 1972Language XLVIII. 264 The present delayed publication is intended especially to permit me to acknowledge that before today the only adequate publication of the principle of maximal redundancy has been in the Presidential Address of December 1969.
Hence ˈmaximally adv., in the maximum degree.
1884W. James in Mind IX. 12 Those portions of the brain that have just been maximally excited retain a kind of soreness. 1969Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 5/3 The answer, as with the short-term gain.., is to tax yourself maximally. In this case you would assume that {pstlg}700 would be left to you after 30 p.c. had been deducted. 1970Nature 30 May 804/1 The enzyme was assayed in maximally activated conditions. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIV. 88 It has been found that the same manners of input timing that maximally increase brightness also act to affect hue and desaturation maximally. 1971D. Crystal Ling. 175 Phonology deals with sounds and contrasts between sounds only within the context of some language (maximally, in any language). 1973Nature 2 Mar. 68/1 Histamine is synthesized maximally in the hypothalamus. |