Definition of "maxima" []

• A plural of maximum. (noun)

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• "Short-term maxima in the most productive crop fields can be close to 5%, whereas even the tropical rain forests, the planet's most productive natural ecosystems, do not average more than 1%."
• "“The long-term maxima of surface air temperature occured in the central decades of the trefoil intervals”"
• "In Georgics II, 146, Vergil repeats the phrase maxima taurus victima, but the phrase must have had its origin in the Catalepton, since here maxima balances humilis."