| 单词 | maximal |
| 释义 | maximal (once / 86273 pages) adj Maximal means the greatest, best, or largest amount of something. The maximal speed of your friend's junky car might be forty miles per hour. The adjective maximal is the opposite of the more common minimal. Your idea of sleeping in maximal comfort might include a soft comforter and lots of pillows, and you might try, when you're running on a treadmill, to get your heartbeat to its maximal rate for several minutes. Maximal has a Latin root, maximus, or "greatest," which in turn comes from magnus, "great or large." WORD FAMILYmaximal: maximally USAGE EXAMPLESWhen the muscle of the heart loses its ability to pump blood at maximal efficiency, we call it heart failure. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) The first is a clinically silent exponential phase, the rate of which is not limited by PrPC concentration, that rapidly reaches a maximal prion titre. Nature(Nov 08, 2016) He funnels others’ work and money into projects, from which he sucks maximal personal benefit. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) adj the greatest or most complete or best possible maximal expansion Syn|Ant maximum supreme greatest or maximal in degree; extreme minimal, minimum the least possible borderline, marginalof questionable or minimal quality negligibleso small as to be meaningless; insignificant nominal, token, tokenishinsignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal) stripped, stripped-downhaving only essential or minimal features |
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