Noun: maximum
| Singular | maximum |
| Plural | maxima; maximums |
Sample Sentences
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This is the fundamental principle of good legislation. It is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness and the minimum of misery [1806, P. Colquhoun, A Treatise on Indigence:]
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I just got out of maximum where I did 4 months for an arguent I had in the serving area. [1983 April 23, Alice Thompson, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 15:]
Nouns inflected like maximum
septum,
sacrum,
scutum,
signum,
philtrum,
effluvium,
preferendum,
tricennium,
fenestrum,
prooemium,
pseudoperidium,
vomitorium,
gubernium,
protocerebrum,
addendum,
pallium,
pabulum,
refugium,
decorum,
fumigatorium, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Via French from Latin maximum. See: Latin Nouns '
maximum'.