Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Same as asymptotical.
Wiktionary
- adj. analysis Of, relating to, or being an asymptote; (of lines) approaching ever nearer, but never crossing.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or of the nature of an asymptote
Examples
“The older I get the less I seem to believe in asymptotic futures.”
“If the shooter always puts the bullet in the same chamber, the probability that is, the asymptotic quotient of number of guys killed versus number of shots fired is not 1/6.”
“Yet the wave length of the photon at “- infinity” is equal to that at “infinity,” where these are defined as asymptotic regions.”
“I hope at least the idea of asymptotic vs. local response proves useful to you.”
WSJ: House Energy report on the "mutual admiration society" « Climate Audit
“First, peace is more about process than result, in the sense that there is no "there" there; it is sometimes said that peace is asymptotic, meaning that we may approach but never reach a final destination where all issues are settled.”
Randall Amster: The Obama Dividend: Is World Peace Finally Possible?
“Only "asymptotic" independence is required according to certain conditions.”
“W remembered looking up the term while reading Fredric Jameson, who used "asymptotic" to describe the relation between the symbolic and the real, and to argue that just because language didn't touch the real, we shouldn't assume that the real didn't exist (Ideologies, 104).”
“In contrast, socialists and radicals envisage a future society, if only as a kind of asymptotic goal, in which distinctions of class and rank are abolished.”
“In Sloan’s very last scan, it found a star of the kind that Jill Knapp studied in her pre-Sloan days, an extremely massive star called an asymptotic giant branch star, normally too bright for the CCDs, but this one was obscured by a shell of dust.”
“In contrast, in social organizations where growth is driven by superlinear scaling, growth is unbounded, never reaching an "asymptotic" stable state, and proceeding at a rate that is faster than exponential.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘asymptotic’.
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SCIE - mathematics
The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
nonparametric, nonparametric sta..., multivariate anal..., partial different..., multivariate, topology, stochastic, differential equa..., linear algebra, harmonic analysis, applied mathematics, combinatorial and 205 more...
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ostensibly, fait accompli, edification, machination, vamp, abstruse, ebullient, tantamount, reductio, asymptotic, ad hominem, syllogism and 15 more...
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Chennessy's Words
philistine, messianic, dyad, cult, bourgeois, blot, ploy, polyglot, lingua franca, cumbersome, lumber, petit-bourgeois and 446 more...
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list.
à gogo, camaïeu, écorché, zoölogical garden, zoopraxiscope, zeitgeber, zeugma, zeitgeist, heterosis, craniopagus, taxicabriolet, medial capital and 97 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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chibiryuu's Words
sugary, amalgam, zaftig, incommensurability, isomorphism, fold, awesome, cute, hack, dichotomy, pyrrhic, bifurcate and 89 more...
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soph2's Words
serendipity, audacity, groak, petrichor, lethologica, loganamnosis, agnuopia, dysania, dysphagia, neologism, incredulity, harbinger and 246 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Better alternatives for common words.
ex cathedra, screed, de rigueur, palpable, wheedle, piebald, incongruity, cassandra, xantippe, ebullient, exuberant, fainéant and 178 more...
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nuwerdna's Words
smegma, defenestration, nubile, zeitgeist, stochastic, ergodic, stability, maudlin, recursion, aversion, agent, set and 239 more...
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Miscellany, pt. a
afterdamp, abluent, acanthoid, aquiline, acaulescent, aesthetic evil, armillary, armozeen, astucity, athletary, aberrant, abeyant and 118 more...
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Annsley's list
churlish, bibulous, salt, salty, conjugal, fabulist, maw, primordial, chimera, emetic, surly, excrescence and 228 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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lovely words
lambent, pellucid, limn, opaline, lissome, amaranthine, halcyon, elysium, apselene, asymptotic, silt, transcend and 12 more...
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ClaireBearStare's list
serendipity, obsequious, verisimilitude, flit, veracity, asymptotic, silhouette, synchronicity, tempestuous, cacophany, jah, truncate
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word set11
slipstreaming, derailleur, sapwood, obovate, wickerwork, rupestrine, orthographical, fructified, dynamometer, stolidity, shadow puppeting, hyperpolyglot and 63 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for asymptotic.
bestiary see asymptote on wikipedia. Jul 26, 2008
oroboros We can look at another way too: closer and closer to death (the asymptote)...but never reaching it. See hylozoism and hylopathism. Oct 19, 2007
reesetee Now I'm depressed. Oct 19, 2007
mdwriternm Taken from mathematics, this is a marvelous word to use when you want to convey something keeps getting closer and closer...but never reaches it. The simple example is this: take a number and divide it by 2. Then divide that by 2, ad infinitum. While you will get closer and closer to zero, you will never actually reach zero. This is called asymptotically approaching zero. What a metaphor for life in many ways...you get closer and closer, but never reach it. Oct 19, 2007