The Collaborative International Dictionary
Extreme \Ex*treme"\, a. [L. extremus, superl. of exter, extrus, on the outside, outward: cf. F. extr[^e]me. See Exterior.]
At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
Last; final; conclusive; -- said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
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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.Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire.
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Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions.
The Puritans or extreme Protestants.
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(Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
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.,
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Extreme unction. See under Unction.
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.
Usage examples of "extreme distance".
The actual extreme distance from side to side over which the summit of the tall hypocotyl passed in the course of 12 h.
High above, several birds, large, black, featureless at this extreme distance, effortlessly rode the thermal currents.
Looking towards the north, he could distinguish Gibraltar faintly visible in the extreme distance, and upon the summit of the rock both Ben Zoof and himself fancied they could make out another semaphore, giving signals, no doubt, in response to the one here.
Presently he observed in the extreme distance, on his right hand, a line of mountainous hills, which he supposed to be the southern shore of the Lake, and that he was sailing into a gulf or bay.
But the communicator was active and, even though it was lying in the sand several meters away and at extreme distance for a handset, Naydrad was listening.
Charliss was accustomed to sending in operatives who worked at an extreme distance, for with the magics the Empire used routinely, distance was no object.
Arrows began to thud into the deck at extreme distance, but the wetting kept them from spreading flame.
Apparently they weren't quite sensitive enough at extreme distance, since I found no trace of the Cyber Ark.
It required roughly twenty-three centuries to complete an orbit around the central luminary, which even at this extreme distance, was fully a third as bright as Greenway’.
Lyons sighted on the second truck, holding his aim above and ahead of his target to compensate for the extreme distance and speed, and fired once.
Again, because of the night and the extreme distance, he saw no hits.
In the extreme distance, behind and above this white wall, soared the tip of a high-looming mountain, pale red in color, whose rugged spires and peaks and parapets stood forth sharply and strangely against an iron-gray sky.
The operator's voice was weakened and distorted by extreme distance.
Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance.