Mega vs Maximum - What's the difference?
mega | maximum |
(informal) Very large.
* 2004 , Nigel Coates, Collidoscope: new interior design (page 26)
great; excellent
* 1998 , John Barwick, Targeting Text (page 25)
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.
As nouns the difference between mega and maximum
is that mega is meg (megabyte) while maximum is .As an adverb mega
is very.mega
English
Adjective
(-)- Follow those in the know to the fifth floor of Sega's Joy Polis, a mega indoor amusement park that's part of the Odaiba Decks Tokyo Bay entertainment complex near Tange's Fuji Television building.
- We had a mega time until Peter fell in the fish pond and cut his leg.
Anagrams
* * ----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.
