"maximize" meaning in English

See maximize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈmæksəmaɪz/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-maximize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: maximizes [present, singular, third-person], maximizing [participle, present], maximized [participle, past], maximized [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} maximize (third-person singular simple present maximizes, present participle maximizing, simple past and past participle maximized)
  1. to make as large as possible Translations (to make as large as possible): առավելագույնի հասցնել (aṙavelaguyni hascʻnel) (Armenian), maximitzar (Catalan), 最大化 (zuìdàhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), maximalizovat (Czech), maximaliseren (Dutch), maksimoida (Finnish), maximiser (French), maximieren (German), μεγιστοποιώ (megistopoió) (Greek), whakamōrahi (Maori), maksymalizować [imperfective] (Polish), zmaksymalizować [perfective] (Polish), maximizar (Portuguese), увели́чивать максима́льно (uvelíčivatʹ maksimálʹno) (Russian), maximalizovať (Slovak), maximizar (Spanish), extremar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-maximize-en-verb-77lWP71P Disambiguation of 'to make as large as possible': 100 0
  2. (computing, graphical user interface) to expand (a window) to fill the main display area Categories (topical): Computing, Graphical user interface Translations (to expand (a window) to fill the main display area (computing)): առավելացնել (aṙavelacʻnel) (Armenian), maximitzar (Catalan), 最大化 (zuìdàhuà) (Chinese Mandarin), suurentaa (Finnish), uasmhéadaigh (Irish), 最大化する (saidaika suru) (alt: さいだいかする) (Japanese), whakamōrahi (Maori), развора́чивать (razvoráčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), разверну́ть (razvernútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), максимизи́ровать (maksimizírovatʹ) [imperfective, perfective] (Russian), maximera (Swedish), tối đa hóa (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-maximize-en-verb-m7fjNA2- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Topics: computing, engineering, graphical-user-interface, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'to expand (a window) to fill the main display area (computing)': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: maximise Derived forms: -maxx

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "to expand (a window) to fill the main display area (computing)",
      "word": "tối đa hóa"
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