0 a person with good knowledge or understanding of a subject
1 a person with good knowledge or understanding of a subject:
Walter’s a baseball maven and knows Hank Aaron’s statistics by heart.
Their challenge, judged by two fashion mavens, was to assemble their own clothing line and be their own mannequins.
Distributed processing can not take a make, ant or maven script, break it up and send it to different machines for compiling and linking.
Maven is built using a plugin-based architecture that allows it to make use of any application controllable through standard input.
Maven can play out such states exhaustively in almost all cases.
Maven also has standard phases for cleaning the project and for generating a project site.
In network theory and sociology, a maven is someone who has a disproportionate influence on other members of the network.
Maven is an offensive spell-caster with many bleeding curses.
Maven's dependency-handling mechanism is organized around a coordinate system identifying individual artifacts such as software libraries or modules.