A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
Alternative letter-case form of Maxim.
The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
Again we went on, and climbed the false immensity of another ridge, when several rifles and a maxim opened upon us, and very close they were.
A surname
From Anglo-Norman maxime and Middle French maxime, from Late Latin maxima (“axiom”), noun use of the feminine singular form of Latin maximus (apparently as used in the phrase prōpositiō maxima (“great...
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