noun
definition
In decision theory and game theory etc, a rule to identify the worst outcome of each possible option to find one's best (maximum payoff) play.
verb
definition
To employ a maximin algorithm.
Examples of maximin in a Sentence
There is no reason to doubt that some such visit was made about the year 315, when the death of Maximin Daza left Constantine supreme.
Under Tiberius mention is made of Treballia in Moesia, and the Emperor Maximin (2 35237) had been commander of a squadron of Triballi.
It is the object of an ancient and famous pilgrimage due to the tradition that Mary, sister of the Virgin, and Mary, mother of James and John, together with their black servant Sara, Lazarus, Martha, Mary Magdalen and St Maximin fled thither to escape persecution in Judaea.
In the south of France he worked hard for the Jacobinical cause, and figured as "Brutus" in the Jacobin club of the small town of St Maximin (then renamed Marathon).
The coup d'etat of Thermidor (July 28, 1794) compelled the young disciple of Robespierre hurriedly to leave St Maximin, and to accept a small post at St Chamans.
Carrhae were retaken by the Persians in the reign of Maximin.
He was secretary to the emperor Maximin.
Incidentally, the fact becomes plain that this section is composed from the standpoint of Asia Minor and Syria, that it dates from soon after the time of Maximin (235-38) and Decius (249-51), and that it springs from a Christian community of a strictly puritan type.
Anthony, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximin, A.D.