MAXIMIZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does maximizing mean? 

• MAXIMIZING (adjective)
  The adjective MAXIMIZING has 1 sense:

1. making as great as possible

  Familiarity information: MAXIMIZING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAXIMIZING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Making as great as possible

Synonyms:

maximising; maximizing

Similar:

increasing (becoming greater or larger)

 Context examples 

A health/illness/pain management principle specifically directed at the management of pharmacologic agents in maximizing beneficial outcomes and minimizing unfavorable effects.

(Pharmacologic Management, NCI Thesaurus)

This is a totally novel pain relief mechanism, based on maximizing the analgesic potential of the immune system cells, and which could have important therapeutic applications in patients with pain of inflammatory origin.

(Scientists make white blood cells to alleviate pain, instead of producing it, during tissue inflammation, University of Granada)

Medical sociology is concerned with individual and group responses aimed at assessing well-being, maintaining health, acting upon real or perceived illness, interacting with health care systems, and maximizing health in the face of physiologic or functional derangement.

(Medical Sociology, NCI Thesaurus)