- plural of maximum.
maxima
Americannoun
noun
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In a 2021 study, researchers including Owens showed that geomagnetic storms tend to occur more often during periods of higher activity, centered around peaks known as solar maxima.
From Science Magazine ● May 13, 2024
During eccentricity maxima Earth moves closer to the Sun allowing for more sunlight to reach the Earth surface.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 30, 2024
This popular methodology, which relies on machine learning, can be used to determine the maxima of a function of an unknown shape.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Silverman recently finished her second week of guest hosting “The Daily Show” and reaped a shiny mea culpa maxima profile in the Los Angeles Times.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2023
There are secular progressive variations of dip as well as of declination and the maxima are independent of each other.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
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