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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
supremum /suːˈpriːməm/

▶noun Mathematics the smallest quantity that is greater than or equal to each of a given set or subset of quantities. The opposite of infimum.

– origin 1940s: from L. suppremum ‘highest part’.

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