clout vs maximum

clout

noun
  • A home run. 

  • A clout nail. 

  • The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 

  • Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 

  • A blow with the hand. 

verb
  • To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. 

  • To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 

  • To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 

  • To hit, especially with the fist. 

  • To join or patch clumsily. 

maximum

noun
  • A scoring shot for 6 runs. 

  • The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function. 

  • A 147 break; the highest possible break. 

  • A score of 180 with three darts. 

  • The highest limit. 

  • An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set. 

  • The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution. 

adj
  • To the highest degree. 

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