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The highest limit

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The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function

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An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set

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The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution

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A 147 break; the highest possible break

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A score of 180 with three darts

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A scoring shot for 6 runs

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To the highest degree.

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Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.

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She came to her feet, stretching her body to its maximum height.

Where everyone can live up to his or her maximum potential.

These few were given the tools to achieve their maximum potential, to live that dream.

The flood water brought down by the Shari in December and January causes the lake to rise to a maximum of 24 ft., the water spreading over low-lying ground, left dry again in May or June.

The maximum wage you can earn, though, is defined by supply and demand for labor, and by your negotiating ability, but it also has a cap.

The time chosen for the strike was the height of the wool season, when a cessation of work would be attended with the maximum of inconvenience.

The mean depth is 189 ft., and the maximum 512 ft.

Simultaneously the forenoon maximum occurs earlier and the afternoon maximum later in the day.

In practice, a period of twenty-one days is usually the maximum period ordered.

Thus between London and Manchester only four sets of apparatus could be worked, but between London and Birmingham, a shorter distance, six sets (the maximum for which the system is adapted) were used.

We compute the maximum amount of food the world can produce by beginning with total acres of land considered arable, but that is based on assumptions about the future of technology and agriculture.

But the food would not only be produced with maximum efficiency; it would be extremely fresh and very healthy.

If we begin with a blue glass, we may observe the gradually increasing obliquity of the direction of maximum polarization; and then by exchanging the blue glass for a red one, we may revert to the original condition of things, and observe the transition from perpendicularity to obliquity over again.

The conspicuous maximum in 1901 and great drop in 1902 in Hungary are also shown by the statistics as to the number of days of thunder.

From the surface to 500 fathoms the general form of the isothermals remains the same, except that instead of an equatorial maximum belt there is a focus of maximum temperature off the eastern coast of the United States.

Precisely at six the next morning, he strode through the medical facility's maximum security barriers.

The fact that at this stage the polarization is a maximum, when the angle through which the light is turned exceeds a right angle, is the more worthy of note, as the opposite result would probably have been expected.

The principal maximum is usually found in the evening between 8 and pp P.M., the principal minimum in the morning from 3 to 5 A.M.

A dock-side crane unloading cargo with high lifts following one another in rapid succession will require a higher load factor than a workshop traveller with a very short lift and only a very occasional maximum load; and a traveller with a very long longitudinal travel will require a higher load factor for the travelling motor than for the lifting motor.

From July to October the level of the Senegal shows a series of fluctuations, with, however, a general increase till the end of August or beginning of September, when the maximum occurs.

At the temperate stations the maximum occurs near mid-winter; in the Arctic it seems deferred towards spring.

Within the rectangle formed by pairs of consecutive dark lines, and not far from its centre, the brightness rises to a maximum; but these subsequent maxima are in all cases much inferior to the brightness at the centre of the entire pattern (=o, n =o).

After twenty minutes into the session, I became concerned we were nearing his maximum.

Most stations in the northern hemisphere have a conspicuous maximum at midsummer with little thunder in winter.

Laplace treated the subject from the point of view of the gradual aggregation and cooling of a mass of matter, and demonstrated that the form which such a mass would ultimately assume must be an ellipsoid of revolution whose equator was determined by the primitive plane of maximum areas.

From a measurement of the maximum distance the least angle between consecutive lines consistent with resolution may be deduced, and a comparison made with the rule stated above.

Thus if A be selfluminous, the illumination is a maximum at B, where all the secondary waves agree in phase.

It is easy to see that the length of the chord (which passes in all cases through 0) increases to a maximum near the place where the phase-retardation is s of a period, then diminishes to a minimum when the retardation is about a of a period, and so on.

On the north and south are hills reaching a maximum height of 200 ft.

Australian deposits were worked in 1872, and in the following year the production was 3000 tons; the maximum outputs were in 1881-1883, averaging 10,000 tons annually; but the supply declined to 2420 tons in 1898 and has since increased to about 5028 tons in 1905.

In 1869 the maximum burden of the vessels which were able to ply on the upper Elbe was 250 tons; but in 1899 it was increased to Boo tons.

The first attempts to utilize the explosive power of nitroglycerin were made by Nobel in 1863; they were only partially successful until the plan, first applied by General Pictot in 1854, of developing the force of gunpowder in the most rapid manner and to the maximum extent, through initiative detonation, was applied by Nobel to nitroglycerin.

Their power is proportioned to requirements of load and maximum gradient; the speed is rarely more than 6 or 8 m.

The maximum load on the engine is thus greater and more power is required than for fixed drums. Steam consumption is economized, whenever possible, by throwing in the clutches of both drums and hoisting in balance.

Transmit antennas also have parameter - a maximum power rating.

One of the best for the flower border is C. maximum and its varieties - all with beautiful white flowers having yellow centres.

These, when fully open, are capable of discharging the ordinary maximum Nile flood of 350,000 cub.

Thus in Italy the universal service system, though probably the best organization both for the army and the nation, works with a maximum of friction.

The Italian Chamber decided that from the 1st of July 1901 until the 30th of June 1907 Italian military expenditure proper should not exceed the maximum of 1/29,560,000 per annum fixed by the Army Bill of May 1897, and that, military pensions should not exceed 1/21,440,000.

Thus, that of 1907-1908 was devoted mainly to raising the salaries of government officials and university professors; even then the maximum for both (in the former class, for an under-secretary of state) was only 500 per annum.

The new law forbade the state banks to lend money on real estate, limited their powers of discounting bills and securities, and reduced the maximum of their paper currency.

The maximum number of teeth is 36, there being typically two pairs of incisors and three of premolars in each jaw.

The rate of growth of a cell varies gradually throughout its course; it begins slowly, increases to a maximum, and then becomes slower till it stops.

Here it is that the actual extension in length of the root takes place, and the cells reach the maximum point of the grand period.

This is due to the fact that while young the turgidity and consequent growth are greater in the dorsal side of the leaf, so that it becomes rolled up. As it develops the maximum turgidity and growth change to its upper side, and so it becomes unfolded or expanded.

One side of a stem may be more turgid than the opposite one, and the maximum turgidity, with its consequent growth, may alternate between two opposite sides.

The passage of the maximum turgidity round the stem may vary in rapidity in different places, causing the circle to be replaced by an ellipse.

But the positive characteristics of the region as a whole are not its peculiar forms alone; there are at least four families which, being feebly represented elsewhere, here attain the maximum of development.

Europe, and it attains its maximum velocity in winter.

If the maximum rates were prescribed, as they sometimes were, the limit was placed so high as to be of no practical value for control.