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Can be considered as tangent at infinity
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asymptote
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"straight line continually approaching but never meeting a curve," 1650s, from Greek asymptotos "not falling together," from a- "not" + syn "with" + ptotos "fallen," verbal adjective from piptein "to fall" (see symptom ). Related: Asymptotic .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asymptote \As"ymp*tote\ (?; 215), n. [Gr. ? not falling together; 'a priv. + ? to fall together; ? with + ? to fall. Cf. Symptom .] (Math.) A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context analysis English) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity". 2 (context by extension figuratively English) Anything which comes near to but never ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In analytic geometry , an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity. Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity; "the asymptote of the curve"
Usage examples of asymptote.
Right and truth and justice, in their relation to human affairs, are as asymptotes which, though continually drawing nearer and nearer to the curve, can never reach it but by a violation of all on which their own existence is founded.
The King rushed forward with all his cruel coordinates and mean values, stumbled into a dark forest of roots and logarithms, had to backtrack, then encountered the beast on a field of irrational numbers (F1) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore.