the act of making something as large or great as possible

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

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

plural of maximal ideal

(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).

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

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.

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