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Maximally

Definition: Maximally

Maximally

Adverb

1. To a maximal degree; "the cells maximally responsive to lines in this orientation will fire".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "maximally" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Maximally

DomainDefinitions

Environment

The person with the highest exposure in a given population. (or Most Exposed Individual). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Antonym: minimally (adv). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Maximally

English words defined with "maximally": angle of extinctiondigitalizeextinction angle. (references)
Specialty definitions using "maximally": Bessel function, Bessel function of zero orderconnected componentsDipeptidyl Peptidase Ilearning from uncertain conditionsmaximally connected component. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Maximally

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Cytotoxic therapy shows a dose-response relationship and, therefore, must be administered in maximally tolerated doses, and the duration of therapy must be sufficient to eradicate all tumor cells. (references)

The principles of dialysis outlined for adults generally hold for children, although no retrospective or prospective studies have been performed that indicate reasonable targets of Kprt/V or Kdrt/V to maximally allay morbidity and mortality. (references)

The drawback to these medications is that they may take a week or so to be maximally effective and can sting and even damage the nasal septum (the soft bony division in the middle of the nose) if the spray is directed at it. Tell your doctor if you have any bloody discharge while using these sprays. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Maximally

"Maximally" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Maximally" is used about 38 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%3855,818

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Maximally

Language Translations for "maximally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

最大地. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

극대 으로. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aximallymay

   

Romanian

  

la maximum (at most), în cel mai mare grad. (various references)

   

Thai

  

อย่างสูงสุ". (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Maximally

Misspellings

"Maximally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maximilla, maximillian. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Maximally

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-l-m-m-x-y"

-2 letters: axially, maxilla, maximal.

-3 letters: axilla, maxima.

-4 letters: aliya, allay, axial, lamia, laxly, llama, maill, malmy, maxim.

-5 letters: ally, alma, amia, amyl, axal, axil, illy, imam, immy, lama, lily, lima, limy, mail, maim, mall, malm, mama, maxi, maya, mill, yill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Maximally


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 78 69 6D 61 6C 6C 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    .-    -..-    ..    --    .-    .-..    .-..    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01111000 01101001 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#120 &#105 &#109 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0078 0069 006D 0061 006C 006C 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

476790757967787891

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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