different between ultra vs maximum

English

Etymology

From Latin ultra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lt??/

Adjective

ultra (comparative more ultra, superlative most ultra)

1. Extreme; far beyond the norm; fanatical; uncompromising.

   an ultra reformer; ultra measures

Noun

ultra (plural ultras)

1. An ultraroyalist in France.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 37:

     "At any rate that is what he explained to me," I said hastily while the lawyer rubbed his long ultra's nose and sighed.

2. An extremist, especially an ultranationalist.
   • 2005, "Foreign ultra killed, three injured in J&K," The Times of India, 29 Dec. (retrieved 21 Apr. 2009):

     Five militants were nabbed while four ultras of Harkat-ul-Jehad-e-Islami (HuJI) gave themselves up.

3. (soccer) An especially devoted football fan, typically associated with the intimidating use of extremist slogans, pyrotechnics and sometimes hooligan violence.
   • 2012, ALINA BERNSTEIN, Neil Blain, Sport, Media, Culture: Global and Local Dimensions, Routledge ?ISBN, page 183

     A similar view is expressed by a Turin supporter in Segre's study, but in this case it is more specifically addressed to how powerful teams, such as Juventus, get preferential treatment in reports on the negative aspects of the ultras world.

   • 2013, Richard Guilianotti, Football, Violence and Social Identity, Routledge ?ISBN, page 77

     If a member of an official football club can be said to be a citizen of the football world, an ultra has to be considered as a militant.

   • 2015, Jamie Cleland, A Sociology of Football in a Global Context, Routledge ?ISBN, page 30

     Although the intention initially was to distribute tickets and arrange travel to away matches, ultras quickly became actively organised and developed an overtly passionate cultural and political identity inside each curva

4. (athletics) An ultramarathon.
5. (climbing) An ultra-prominent peak.
6. (usually capitalised) Code name used by British codebreakers during World War 2 for decrypted information gained from the enemy.

Related terms

• ulterior
• ultimate
• ultra-

Anagrams

• lutar

Finnish

Noun

ultra

1. (aviation) ultralight (aircraft that weighs very little)
2. Short for ultraäänitutkimus.

Declension

Synonyms

• (aircraft): ultrakevyt, ultrakevyt lentokone, UL-kone

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yl.t?a/

Adjective

ultra (plural ultras)

1. ultra, extreme

Noun

ultra m or f (plural ultras)

1. extremist
2. (historical) an ultra-royalist during the Bourbon Restoration period in France

Further reading

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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English ultra, French outre, Italian oltre, Spanish ultra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ul.tra/

Adjective

ultra

1. ultra: beyond due limit
2. further, additional

Derived terms

References

• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 90
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 593
• Progreso VII (in Ido), 1914, page 481

Latin

Etymology

From uls + -ter + -? (adverb). See also citr?, intr?, extr?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ul.tra?/, [????t??ä?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ul.tra/, [?ul?t???]

Preposition

ultr? (+ accusative)

1. beyond

Adverb

ultr? (not comparable)

1. beyond, further
2. additionally, besides

Descendants

References

• ultra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ultra in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ultra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Anagrams

• lutra

Spanish

Adjective

ultra (plural ultras)

1. extreme

Noun

ultra m or f (plural ultras)

1. far-right extremist
2. hooligan, hardened fan

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