Extreme
Definition of Extreme
Ex`treme´ | a. | 1. | At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. | | 2. | Last; final; conclusive; - said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. | | 3. | The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. | | 4. | Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. | | 5. | (Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; - said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.| Extreme distance | | (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6. |
| | n. | 1. | The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. | | 2. | Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; - often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. | | 3. | An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. | | 4. | (Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. | | 5. | (Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.| In the extreme | | as much as possible. - J. P. Peters. |
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