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The ceiling you hit right before realizing you should've paced yourself.
means The greatest amount, size, or degree that something can reach or is allowed to reach.
from Straight from Latin maximus, meaning 'greatest' — the superlative of magnus, 'great' (the same root that gives us 'magnitude' and 'magnify'). English absorbed it whole in the 1600s–1700s as mathematicians and scientists needed a crisp noun for 'the biggest possible value,' and it never bothered to disguise its Latin roots.
- origin
- Latin for the greatest thing
- math use
- largest value a function actually reaches
- gym culture
- one rep max, forever followed by regret
- security term
- maximum security means no, really, stay