asymptote

Meanings

Noun

  • A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
  • Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.

Verb

Origin

  • , from Ancient Greek ἀσύμπτωτη, the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' () Ancient Greek adjective ἀσύμπτωτος, from ἀ + σύν.

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