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A thermometer filled with water instead of mercury, for ascertaining the precise temperature at which water attains its maximum density. This is about 39¡ Fahr., or 4¡ Centigrade; and from that point down to 32¡ Fahr., or 0¡ Centigrade, or the freezing point, it expands.
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a.
Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title.
v. t.
A speech; something said; an expression of opinion; a current story; a maxim or proverb.
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Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions.
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A sentence, or passage, considered as the expression of a thought; a maxim; a saying; a toast.
v. t.
To increase to the highest degree.
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A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
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The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.
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A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods.
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Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
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A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw.
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Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer.
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Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
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The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
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The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.
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The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
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Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
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A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke.
v. t.
A saying; a proverb; a maxim.
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