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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
extremum /ɪkˈstriːməm, ɛk-/

▶noun (pl. extremums or extrema) Mathematics the maximum or minimum value of a function.

– origin early 20th cent.: from L., neut. of extremus (see extreme).

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