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Maximal   /mˈæksəməl/   Listen
Maximal

adjective
1.
The greatest or most complete or best possible.  Synonym: maximum.  "Maximum pressure"






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"Maximal" Quotes from Famous Books



... instruments giving forth a tone which can be varied after it begins. Thus e.g., the human voice, the violin, the organ enclosed in a swell box, and certain wind instruments, are all capable of sounding a tone softly at first and gradually increasing the volume until the maximal point of power has been reached. But on the piano, organ not enclosed in a swell-box, kettle drum, etc., the power of the tone cannot be varied after the tone has once been sounded, and a crescendo effect is therefore possible only in a passage, ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens

... Indo-European-speaking groups or by the intermediary of Turkish tribes. We have some reasons to believe that the first Indo-European-speaking groups arrived in the Far East in the middle of the second millenium B.C. Some authors even connect the Hsia with these groups. In any case, the maximal distribution of these people seems to have been to the western borders of the Shang state. As in Western Asia, a Shang-time chariot was manned by three men: the warrior who was a nobleman, his driver, and his servant who handed him arrows ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard



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