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
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
"We found that the overall temperature averages seemed stable for a simple reason. While the minimum temperatures have been steadily on the rise, the surface temperature maxima in summer were consistently dropping," says Salerno.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
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
If the ordinates were increased, so that the maxima were of the same height as that of the photographic curve, the resemblance between them and this last would be very marked.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by Abney, W. de W.
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