The well-known author of "Maxima and Minima," viz.
His writings may be found in Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum.
This letter of Fulbert may be found in Maxima Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum.
The length of the cycle is, on an average, about eleven years and five weeks, but both its length and the intensity of the maxima vary somewhat.
At the time of minimum frequency of spots the lines of iron and other terrestrial elements are prominent among the most widened lines; at the maxima these almost vanish, and the widening is found only amongst lines of unknown origin.
Many of the dark lines had a thin bright line superposed in the middle, while on the other hand many of the bright lines had two or three points maxima of brightness.
As the Mersey was undoubtedly the boundary on the West between the Roman provinces of Maxima and Flavia, and as the Roman road still existing crossed it at Stretford, we fix the next point there, and change the number XVII.
In London and the great industrial towns the deaths are spread somewhat uniformly over the year; or, in the language of statisticians, the maxima do not rise far above the mean of the year.
The law of the increase and decrease of the Orinoco is more difficult to determine with respect to space, or to the magnitude of the oscillations, than with regard to time, or the period of the maxima and minima.
The line of ridges or elevation passing along the maxima of height.
The maxima of the height of the different formations diminish regularly in the country we are describing with their relative ages.
These early or late maxima follow each other year after year, with a certain amount of regularity as regards the progression, though no definable law can be laid down to govern them.
During the few years following 1903 the maxima will probably not be visible, owing to the star being near conjunction with the sun at the times of their occurrence.
Thus, as we have already remarked, Omicron Ceti is ten times as bright at some maxima as it is at others.
Railroads under government supervision must set their rates close to the maxima then, and maintain them there, for their own salvation.
I had just put a half-inch expanded grain on the minima plate, when Lee White walked onto the maxima and Burns pressed the red button.
The grain of sand on the minima plate flicked out of our time-space and reappeared on the maxima plate ten times larger.
I made him unlock the door and unset the alarms, dumped him on the maxima plate of his own converter and shot him into a spare enlarged crystal he had on his desk, after taking off his hearing aid.
Anyway, they were depressed at being expelled, so I let them sit in the shade of the trailer while I set up the specimen plates and power unit, minima stand here, maxima stand there, controls on the sand beside them.
He stepped off the maxima plate swiftly before the crystal could materialize him.
I grabbed the power controls, John fed the crystals onto the minima plate, I pressed the button and fielded the staggering human being off the maxima plate before the enlarged crystal came following through.
Looked at more closely, there are maxima of conceptions in Russia in January and in April.
These curves prove that the Sunday maxima discharges occur in March and September, and the minima in June; that the Monday maxima discharges occur in September, Friday in July, and so on.
All themaxima occur on Saturday or Sunday, with the minima on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday.
Perry-Coste), both spring and autumn maxima fall rather later, but all agree in representing the autumn rise as the chief climax.
Probably, any student of curves will concede that, on a still larger average, the two secondary maxima of Curve F would be replaced by a single one on Wednesday or Thursday.
At Kremsmunster Zolss (41) finds a considerable similarity between the diurnal variations in q and in the potential gradient, the hours of the forenoon and afternoon maxima being nearly the same in the two cases.
The 6-month term has the earliest of its two equal maxima about the 26th of March.
All are observed frequencies, derived after Wolf's method; maxima and minima are in heavy type.
The maxima and minima in the two phenomena in a good many cases are not found in the same years.
The 12-hour term is much less variable, especially as regards its phase angle; its amplitude shows distinct maxima near the equinoxes.
He was a teacher of science in Delhi College, and the work to which De Morgan refers is A Treatise on problems of Maxima and Minima solved by Algebra, which appeared at Calcutta in 1850.
Pascal relates that de Beaugrand sent all of Roberval's theorems on the cycloid and Fermat's on maxima and minima to Galileo in 1638, pretending that they were his own.
The objection does not hold if it is remembered that the three maxima of impressions are taken as equal.
If the ordinates were increased, so that the maxima were of the same height as that of the photographic curve, the resemblance between them and this last would be very marked.
The maxima of pressure recorded on the 11th in various parts of the country, were all found to give a reading of 30.
The Cloaca Maxima has been diverted into the Tiber below S.
Ibi sunt serpentes maximi, et capiuntur et a gente illa comeduntur: vnde qui faceret festum solemne, et non daret serpentes, nihil reputaret se facere; breuiter in hac ciuitate sunt omnia victualia in maxima abundantia.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maxima" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
