absolute maximum

noun

, Mathematics.

the largest value a given function assumes on a specified set. Compare maximum ( def 4a ).

Every boat-building company was trying to put overboard an absolute maximum of hulls on that day.

Hence Wolf, who has made an exhaustive study of the matter, concludes that there was an absolute maximum of spots about 1372.

What, for example, will be the absolute maximum to which wages in general could be forced?

Note also the dates on which the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum occurred.

The absolute monthly range of temperature is the difference, in degrees, between the absolute maximum and the absolute minimum.

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