extreme

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If its the university option (as in moving to another town and living on a college campus) it can be very "free" with very few limitations and still strong support from home; and at the other extreme is the military option, which is very restricted with lots of rules and probably much more tightly controlled than the last year or two at home.

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  1. adjective Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest: the extreme edge of the field.
  2. adjective Being in or attaining the greatest or highest degree; very intense: extreme pleasure; extreme pain.
  3. adjective Extending far beyond the norm: an extreme conservative. See Synonyms at excessive.
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  • Needless to say that I, for one, refuse to accept such "editing" jobs or quote a price to reflect the aggravation and the time I expect to need, including for providing a report about the original translation if requested.On the other extreme is a competent translation, which is given out for editing to fix a few typos, minor omissions, and, if possible, to improve the overall style of the text.
  • At the other extreme were the debunkers, for whom all evidence, no matter the claimed quality or quantity of corroborating fact, was as entirely un convincing. —  AnalogSF,June2003
  • The 2003 weather extreme has been attributed to global warming. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • On the other extreme was the Election Department, which is on pace to spend 30 times as much on overtime through June as in the prior year, an increase blamed on November's costly elections. —  Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines
  • At the other extreme is a very active project with no users ( "right"), which suffers from a lack of feedback and testing. —  Planet Ubuntu
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin extrēmus; see eghs in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also extream, extreame; from Old French extreme, French extrème = Provencal extrem, estrem = Spanish Portuguese extremo = Italian estremo, stremo, from Latin extremus, outermost, utmost, superlative of exter, outer, outward: see exterior.
  2. from extreme, adjective
 

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