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[ adverb ] not more than

Synonyms

at_the_most

Examples

"spend at most $20 on the lunch"

Used in print

(1961 Research Highlights of the National Bureau of...)

Over a temperature range from 25 to 200 * * f and at pressures up_to 250 atm , an overload of 300 psi , applied for a period of one day , results in an uncertainty in the pressure of , at_most , one millimeter_of_mercury .

(Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)

In the first of these sentences if by is the complement of come and Tuesday is an adjunct of time equivalent_to on Tuesday , there will be strong stress on by in the spoken_language ; but if a complement for come is implied and by Tuesday is a prepositional unit used as an adjunct , by will be unstressed or lightly stressed at_most .

Related terms

at_least at_least

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