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maxima

noun

Meaning

  1. A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves.
  2. The highest limit
  3. The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
  4. An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
  5. The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
  6. A 147 break; the highest possible break
  7. A score of 180 with three darts

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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