Word.ws English Dictionary

maximizing

maximizing is the present participle and gerund of maximize.

Meaning of maximize

Verb

maximize (third-person singular simple present maximizes, present participle maximizing, simple past and past participle maximized)

  1. (transitive) To make as large as possible.
    • I need to maximize performance.
  2. To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.
    • Since I only have one window open, I maximized the window so that the desktop is not visible.

Questions about maximizing

What is maximizing the present participle and gerund of?
Maximizing is the present participle and gerund of maximize.

Words near maximizing in the dictionary

  1. maximize
  2. maximized
  3. maximizer
  4. maximizers
  5. maximizes
  6. maximizing
  7. Maximo
  8. Maximoff
  9. maximon
  10. maximons
  11. maxims

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: maximizing (page history and authors); maximize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “maximizing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/maximizing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.