Of or pertaining to a maximum. / (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a maximative.

(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).

plural of maximal ideal

(cryptography) "The enemy knows the system" - a restatement of Kerckhoffs's principle

(firearms) A British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War II.

(often attributive) A method of parsing or lexing where the longest possible section of the input is matched on each iteration.

(fascism, historical) A short-lived Jewish fascist movement.

A hypothetical artificial intelligence whose goal is to produce as many paperclips as possible and which achieves this by converting all matter in the universe into paperclips.

plural of maximum

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