MAXIMALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maximally mean? 

• MAXIMALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MAXIMALLY has 1 sense:

1. to a maximal degree

  Familiarity information: MAXIMALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAXIMALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a maximal degree

Context example:

the cells maximally responsive to lines in this orientation will fire

Antonym:

minimally (to a minimal degree)

Pertainym:

maximal (the greatest or most complete or best possible)

 Context examples 

The maximal flow achieved during the maximally forced expiration initiated at maximum inhalation as a proportion of the predicted normal value.

(Percent Predicted Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The maximal flow achieved during the maximally forced expiration initiated at maximum inhalation.

(Peak Expiratory Flow, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

IPI effectively maintains a database of cross references between the primary data sources, provides minimally redundant yet maximally complete sets of proteins for featured species (one sequence per transcript), and maintains stable identifiers (with incremental versioning) to allow the tracking of sequences in IPI between IPI releases.

(International Protein Index, NCI Thesaurus)