Maximal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or consisting of a maximum.
  • adj. Being the greatest or highest possible.
  • n. Mathematics An element in an ordered set that is followed by no other.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.
  • n. The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.
  • n. Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice: that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).
  • n. Said of a set of well-formed formulas: that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e., that for any wff φ, the set contains either φ or ~φ.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of the highest or maximum value, etc.; being a maximum.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. the greatest or most complete or best possible
  • Equivalent
    supreme   
    Antonym
    minimal   
    Form
    submaximal   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    greatest    maximum   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Abelian    maximum    planar    self-adjoint    appreciable