plural of maximum

(music) A music note equal to two (or sometimes three) longæ; in modern notation, this is typically equivalent to eight semibreves.

plural of maxima

plural of solar maximum

plural of local maximum

plural of interference maximum

plural of global maximum

Largest, greatest (in magnitude), highest, most.

(mathematics) The element of a set with the greatest magnitude. / (mathematics) 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).

(algebra, ring theory) An ideal which cannot be made any larger (by adjoining any element to it) without making it improper (i.e., equal to the whole of the containing algebraic structure).