Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Maximally |
MaximallyAdverb1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
| Antonym: minimally (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Maximally |
| English words defined with "maximally": angle of extinction ♦ digitalize ♦ extinction angle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "maximally": Bessel function, Bessel function of zero order ♦ connected components ♦ Dipeptidyl Peptidase I ♦ learning from uncertain conditions ♦ maximally connected component. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 38 | 55,818 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "maximally"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 最大地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 극대 으로. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aximallymay la maximum (at most), în cel mai mare grad. (various references) อย่างสูงสุ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Maximally" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maximilla, maximillian. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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)
|
| 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)M a x i m a l l y |
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 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.