To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water...and be 'bigger'. Of course, one …

Oct 19, 2018 · when comparing amounts of some things, but I've checked it in google which seems like "the largest, the greatest, the highest, and even the most number of. . ." are …

Biggest and largest are both acceptable for non-technical English, although in a mathematical context they may be confused with the greatest magnitude (absolute value). There are …

May 27, 2015 · Largest number is mathematically meaningless (since in the usual system of integers, adding one to any number produces a larger number). However, the term may refer …

Oct 15, 2018 · 1) The second largest number of people lives in city B. OR. 2) The intermediate number of people lives in city B. So the question is: which one is better? Or if there's a better …

Oct 14, 2021 · You can use either larger or largest. Logically, if you partition a group between all that are A, and all that are not A, you have two groups, and you can use the simple …

Oct 6, 2022 · In the world of U.S. politics a plurality is the largest piece of pie in a pie where no slice is bigger than 50% (2nd pie 45%) but only a slice bigger than half would be called a …

Oct 9, 2015 · "Largest single" is not incorrect (think "this is the largest single cell"), it just has a different meaning. But I cannot at the moment conceive of a sentence with "the largest single …

Jan 20, 2014 · As far as grammaticality goes, it might be worth pointing out that superlatives larger and largest are relatively common words, but, for some reason, huger and hugest aren't …

Mar 29, 2019 · In some cases, it is instead used for "the largest group (out of three or more), none of which is over 50%". A more formal word for this is "plurality", which is used in cases (like …