IMAX

British

/ ˈaɪmæks /

noun

a process of film projection using a giant screen on which an image approximately ten times larger than standard is projected

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Etymology

Origin of IMAX

C20: from _image + _maximum

Example Sentences

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It also had a one-week stint in IMAX, making it the highest-grossing week ever for a documentary in IMAX.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

IMAX, he said, has gone out of its way to work with the streamer.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

Gelfond bet back then that enlisting top filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, who has made all of his hit films since “The Dark Knight” for IMAX, was key to his company’s future.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

Movie producer Neal Moritz recently flew to New York for his first pitch to the man who controls the screens everyone in Hollywood wants: the chief executive of IMAX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

“Chestnut Street? Is that where they put that new IMAX? I thought that was farther downtown. Huh.”

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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