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maximum (iou) and canal of Guyon (medicine)


maximum (iou)



maximum noun & adjective. M16.
[(French from) mod. Latin use as noun of neut. of Latin maximus superl. of magnus great.]
A. noun. Pl. -ima , -imums.
I.
= MAXIM noun1 2. Only in M16.
II. The largest portion in which matter can exist. Only in M17.
Math. The greatest value which a variable may have; the largest element in a set; a point at which a continuously varying quantity ceases to increase and begins to decrease. M18.
gen. The highest possible magnitude or quantity of something attained, attainable, or customary; an upper limit of magnitude or quantity. M18.
T. M. Lindsay A strange compound of minimum of fact and maximum of theory. A. Storr Dependence is at its maximum at birth, when the human infant is most helpless.
b. The highest amount (esp. of temperature, barometric pressure, etc.) attained or recorded within a particular period. M19.
A superior limit imposed by authority; esp. in French History, a limit of price for corn. E19.
Comb.: maximum thermometer: which records the highest temperature attained since it was last set.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or pertaining to a maximum, that is a maximum. M19.
maximum price: that may not by law etc. be exceeded.
Z. Tomin It was a game requiring maximum concentration.

canal of Guyon (medicine)


canal of Guyon


Passageway through the transverse carpal ligament by which the ulnar nerve and artery enter the palm; it is closely related to the pisiform and the hook of the hamate.