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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of extremize.
  • adjective converted into an extreme form

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Examples

  • There was also a linear objective to be extremized.

    How Linear Programming Began « Isegoria 2008

  • It can be extremized to bullying, of course, and that's bad, but basically a kid who doesn't respond to adults explaining to him how to act, or who doesn't get that explanation, gets the rough edges knocked off by his peers responding negatively or not responding at all when his behavior is outside social norms.

    Libertarian Blog Place Various Libertarian Bloggers 2010

  • It is also known that if the standard Euler-Lagrange equations are satisfied then action is trivially extremized with respect to variations in the reference configuration (of course these are all valid when everything is smooth).

    iMechanica - Comments Arash_Yavari 2009

  • "Postulating" that action should be extremized with respect to referential variations would give "better" meshes, at least in the examples solved so far.

    iMechanica - Comments Arash_Yavari 2009

  • "Postulating" that action should be extremized with respect to referential variations would give "better" meshes, at least in the examples solved so far.

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

  • It is also known that if the standard Euler-Lagrange equations are satisfied then action is trivially extremized with respect to variations in the reference configuration (of course these are all valid when everything is smooth).

    iMechanica - Comments 2009

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