Associations to the word «Extremum»

Wiktionary

EXTREMUM, noun. (mathematics) a point, or value, which is a maximum or a minimum

Dictionary definition

EXTREMUM, noun. The point located farthest from the middle of something.
EXTREMUM, noun. The most extreme possible amount or value; "voltage peak".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope