different between exceed vs maximum

English

Alternative forms

• excede (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin exced? (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with ced? (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Hyphenation: ex?ceed

Verb

exceed (third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded)

1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).

   The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

2. (transitive) To be better than (something).

   The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.

   Your password cannot exceed eight characters.

4. (intransitive) To predominate.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].

Synonyms

• (to be larger than something): outbalance, outweigh
• (to be better than something): excel, outperform, surpass; see also Thesaurus:exceed
• (to go beyond some limit): outstep, overstep, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
• (to predominate):
• (to be excessive): cross the line

Antonyms

According to the Oxford Dictionary website:"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."

• to fail
• to be inferior
• to fall short
• to subceed

Derived terms

• exceeding
• exceedingly

Related terms

• excess
• excessive
• excessively

Translations

Further reading

• exceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exceed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• exceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• excede, execed

English

Etymology

Via French from Latin maximum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæks?m?m/
• Hyphenation: max?i?mum

Noun

maximum (plural maxima or maximums)

1. The highest limit
   • P. Colquhoun

     Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.

2. (mathematics) The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function
3. (mathematical analysis) An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set
4. (statistics) The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution
5. (colloquial, snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break
6. (colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts
7. (colloquial, cricket) A scoring shot for 6 runs

Usage notes

• Maxima is the more common plural, especially for the technical senses.

Synonyms

• max

Antonyms

• minimum

Hypernyms

• (statistics): measure of location
• extremum

Translations

Adjective

maximum (not comparable)

1. To the highest degree.

   Synonym: maximal

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• supremum

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?maks?mum]

Noun

maximum n

1. maximum

Declension

Antonyms

• minimum

Further reading

• maximum in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• maximum in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin maximum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?k.si?m?m/
• Hyphenation: ma?xi?mum

Noun

maximum n (plural maxima or maximums, diminutive maximumpje n)

1. maximum

Antonyms

• minimum

Derived terms

• maximumleeftijd
• maximumloon
• maximumsnelheid

Related terms

• maximaal

Descendants

• Afrikaans: maksimum

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak.si.m?m/

Noun

maximum m (plural maxima or maximums)

1. maximum

Derived terms

• grand maximum
• maximal

Further reading

• “maximum” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

maximum

1. nominative neuter singular of maximus
2. accusative masculine singular of maximus
3. accusative neuter singular of maximus
4. vocative neuter singular of maximus

Romanian

Etymology

From French maximum

Noun

maximum n (uncountable)

1. maximum

Declension