Maxwellisation

Meaning

Noun

• A process whereby people criticised in an official inquiry are given an opportunity to read and respond to the criticisms before the report is published.
• The property of exhibiting a Maxwellian distribution, especially as regards the speed of a particle.

Origin

• Maxwell + -isation. In the sense relating to a critical enquiry, named after newspaper proprietor Robert Maxwell, who brought a court case in respect of a 1969 British government report that was critical of his conduct.