Word Meanings - MAXIMIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To increase to the highest degree. Bentham.
Related words: (words related to MAXIMIZE)
- INCREASE
To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge; - INCREASEMENT
Increase. Bacon. - BENTHAMIC
Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism. - BENTHAMITE
One who believes in Benthamism. - DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third - INCREASER
One who, or that, increases. - BENTHAMISM
That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only - INCREASEFUL
Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." Shak. - REINCREASE
To increase again.