That which is to be maximized.

plural of maximal

plural of maximand

plural of maximalist

(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.

The opposite of minimalism: a tendency toward excess.

(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.

The quality or state of being maximal.

(often attributive) A method of parsing or lexing where the longest possible section of the input is matched on each iteration.