Maximum vs Exceeding - What's the difference?
maximum | exceeding |
The highest limit.
* P. Colquhoun
(mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
(analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
(statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
(colloquial, snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.
(colloquial, darts) A score of with three darts.
(colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs.
To the highest degree.
(archaic) prodigious
(archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
(archaic) extreme
(archaic) Exceedingly.
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* 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:
(archaic) The situation of being in excess.
* 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
As nouns the difference between maximum and exceeding
is that maximum is the highest limit while exceeding is the situation of being in excess.As adjectives the difference between maximum and exceeding
is that maximum is to the highest degree while exceeding is prodigious.As a verb exceeding is
present participle of lang=en.As an adverb exceeding is
exceedingly.maximum
English
(wikipedia maximum)Noun
(en-noun)- Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.
Usage notes
* (term) is the more common plural, especially for the technical senses.Hypernyms
* (statistics) measure of locationSynonyms
* maxAntonyms
* minimumAdjective
(-)- Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.
Derived terms
* antimaximum * global maximum * local maximum * maximal * maximize * maximum break * maximum limit * submaximumexceeding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Adverb
(en adverb)- Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar , note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert.
Usage notes
* The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.Noun
(en noun)- I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money