Maxim Definition–noun | 1. | an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one: the maxims of La Rochefoucauld. |
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Related topics from BritannicaMaxim, Hudson
American inventor of explosives extensively used in World War I.legal maxim
a broad proposition (usually stated in a fixed Latin form), a number of which have been used by lawyers since the 17th century or earlier. Some of them can be traced to early Roman law. Much more ...
Maxim, Joey
American boxer (b. March 28, 1922, Cleveland, Ohio-d. June 2, 2001, West Palm Beach, Fla.), was the world light heavyweight champion from 1950 to 1952. On Jan. 24, 1950, Maxim knocked out heavily ...
Maxim, Sir Hiram (Stevens)
prolific inventor best known for the Maxim machine gun.Maxim, Hiram Percy
American inventor and manufacturer known especially for the "Maxim silencer" gun attachment.Maxim machine gun
first fully automatic machine gun (q.v.), developed by engineer and inventor Hiram Maxim in about 1884, while he was residing in England. It was manufactured by Vickers and was sometimes known as ...
Kontsevich, Maxim
Russian mathematician who won the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.Gorky, Maksim
Russian short-story writer and novelist who first attracted attention with his naturalistic and sympathetic stories of tramps and social outcasts and later wrote other stories, novels, and plays, ...
Polonius
councillor to King Claudius and the father of Ophelia and Laertes in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is especially known for his maxim-filled speech ("Neither a borrower nor a lender be"). His ...
language, philosophy of
Austin's Oxford colleague H.P. Grice (1913-88) developed a sophisticated theory of how nonliteral aspects of meaning are generated and recovered through the exploitation of general principles of ...
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