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Meaning of max.

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

max.

noun

Definitions

  1. The element of a set with the greatest magnitude.

  2. Said of an ideal of a ring or a filter of a lattice: that it is as large as it can be without being trivial (improper).

  3. Said of a set of well-formed formulas: that it is as large as it can be without being inconsistent; i.e. that for any well-formed formula φ, the set contains either φ or ~φ.

noun

Definitions

  1. The highest limit

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

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

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