Maxim
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- (machine guns): After the inventor Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916).
Proper noun
[edit]Maxim (plural Maxims)
- A surname
Noun
[edit]Maxim (plural Maxims)
- (firearms) The Maxim gun, a British machine gun of various calibres used by the British army from 1889 until World War I.
- Synonyms: Maxim gun, Vickers gun
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 104:
- 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.
- (firearms) Any machine gun that derives from the design pattern of Maxim's patented design
- (firearms, informal, obsolete) A machine gun
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Etymology
[edit]From the Latin saint's name Maximus, cognate to French Maxime and Russian Макси́м (Maksím).
Pronunciation
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- a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Maximus
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