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extreme 音标拼音: [ɪkstr'im] a. 末端的,尽头的;极度的,极端的
n. 极度,最大程度 末端的,尽头的;极度的,极端的极度,最大程度 extreme adj 1: of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; " extreme cold"; " extreme caution"; " extreme pleasure"; " utmost contempt"; " to the utmost degree"; " in the uttermost distress" [ synonym: { extreme}, { utmost( a)}, { uttermost( a)}] 2: far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; " an extreme example"; " extreme temperatures"; " extreme danger" 3: beyond a norm in views or actions; " an extreme conservative"; " an extreme liberal"; " extreme views on integration"; " extreme opinions" 4: most distant in any direction; " the extreme edge of town" n 1: the furthest or highest degree of something; " he carried it to extremes" 2: the point located farthest from the middle of something [ synonym: { extreme point}, { extreme}, { extremum}] Extreme \ Ex* treme"\, a. [ L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extr[^ e] me. See { Exterior}.] 1. At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. " The extremest remedy." -- Dryden. " Extreme rapidity." -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. [ 1913 Webster] The Puritans or extreme Protestants. -- Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. [ 1913 Webster] { Extreme and mean ratio} ( Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less. { Extreme distance}. ( Paint.) See { Distance}., n., 6. { Extreme unction}. See under { Unction}. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. " Tried in his extremest state." -- Spenser. " Extremest hardships." -- Sharp. " Extremest of evils." -- Bacon. " Extremest verge of the swift brook." -- Shak. " The sea' s extremest borders." -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster]
Extreme \ Ex* treme"\, n. 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness. -- Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster] 3. An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. " Resolute in most extremes." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. ( Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series. [ 1913 Webster] { In the extreme} as much as possible. " The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme." -- J. P. Peters. 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