(art, music, literature) Preferring redundancy; tending to do or provide more rather than less. / (politics, diplomacy) Aggressive, expansive. / (religion) Relating to religious or Biblical maximalism.

(art, literature, music) A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.

plural of maximiser

Alternative spelling of maximizer

plural of maximum break

Alternative spelling of maximizable

(chiefly graphical user interface) That can be maximized.

(of a prison) Having a high level of security, designed to house the most dangerous of prisoners.

(economics, computer science, decision theory) A strategy or algorithm that seeks to maximize the maximum possible result (that is, that prefers the alternative with the chance of the best possible outcome, even if its expected outcome and its worst possible outcome are worse than other alternatives); often used attributively, as "maximax strategy", "maximax approach", and so on.

plural of maxima