Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A value in the domain of a given function at which the function attains a maximum or minimum value.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the point located farthest from the middle of something.
- noun the most extreme possible amount or value.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mathematics a point, or value, which is a
maximum or aminimum
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the most extreme possible amount or value
- noun the point located farthest from the middle of something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And the value of E at the extremum is the entropy itself!
The Reference Frame 2010
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To see where this will lead, one can take the derivative of D with respect to y, and set it to zero to find the extremum which is indeed a minimum, but I’ll leave that detail to the reader:
Calling ID's Bluff, Calling ID's Bluff... - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Not to mention, the Laffer curve, if it were true, does shows that increasing taxes increases tax revenues ... at one extremum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010
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ShelbyC says: zuch: Not to mention, the Laffer curve, if it were true, does shows that increasing taxes increases tax revenues ... at one extremum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010
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And since traditional Christianity so obviously renounces this false freedom and stands against it, the opportunity to blame Tiller's death on all Christians who oppose abortion is simply too good to pass up for those who are committed to not only holding tightly to that freedom, but to expanding it ad extremum.
Pope John Paul II 2009
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Options markets have a volatility 'smile': the implied volatilities of the extremum strike prices are much higher than implied by gaussian distributions.
Non-normal Distributions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This always struck me as redundant, since if we assume the system obeys the equations of motion, the action must be invariant under ANY infinitesimal variation (since the EOM are found by assuming that the action is at an extremum).
Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day 2010
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Not to mention, the Laffer curve, if it were true, does shows that increasing taxes increases tax revenues ... at one extremum.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Ideology and Economic Ignorance 2010
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The basis for the comparisons made in this simulation do not define any “global” extremum.
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Vocem iucunditatis annuntiate, et audiatur, alleluia: nuntiate usque ad extremum terræ: liberavit Dominus populum suum, alleluia, alleluia.
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