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/ˈasəm(p)ˌtōt/,
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asymptotes, plural;
  1. A line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance

  1. a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity; "the asymptote of the curve"
  2. 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 is unusual for modern authors. ...
  3. Asymptote is a New York-based architectural office founded in 1989 by principals Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture.
  4. Asymptote is a descriptive vector graphics language, developed by Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman (University of Alberta), and Tom Prince, that provides a natural coordinate-based framework for technical drawing. Asymptote runs on all major platforms (UNIX, Mac OS, Microsoft Windows). ...
  5. (Asymptotes) Straight lines that have the property of becoming and staying arbitrarily close to the curve as the distance from the origin increases to infinity. For example, the x- axis is the only asymptote to the graph of sin( x)/x.
  6. The asymptote of a function as it is now used is a much narrower definition than the original Greek meaning. The word joins the roots a (not), with sum (together) + piptein (to fall) and literally means "not falling together", or not meeting. ...
  7. An asymptote is like one of those people you meet at a party who is devastatingly attractive and you just want to get close. You maneuver your way next to them and casually strike up a conversation. Making good time, you get closer and closer, till you're practically knocking knees. ...
  8. The upper or lower bound to a relationship that is approached continuously, but never reached. Photosynthetic response curves approach Amax asymptotically.
  9. An asymptote is a straight line on a graph that a curve approaches, but never meets.   Asymptotes are classified as horizontal, vertical or oblique.  Oblique means the line is neither horizontal nor vertical.
  10. in coordinate geometry, a straight line that a curve approaches more and more closely but never reaches. The x and y axes are asymptotes to the graph of xy = constant (a rectangular hyperbola). ...
  11. The mathematical notion of a straight line in two-dimensional Cartesian space, towards which a particular curvilinear function "tends", but which it will never finally reach until they both get to infinity. The hyperbola [picture] and the Gaussian curve [picture] are both asymptotic in this way. ...
  12. n. - line approaching a curve but meeting it only at infinity. asymptotic, adj.
  13. A line on a curve never ending or an asymptote is the end part of the line on a curve tending to infinity.
  14. ofx = cexists on a function f(x)if at a point of discontinuity, x = c,
  15. Maximal level of responding. Often used in describing rate and level of learning in respondent conditioning in which a brief CS presentation is followed by the US after some fixed, extended time period (typically applied in to learning in the Rescorla-Wagner Model). Cf TEMPORAL CONDITIONING.
  16. a straight line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.
  17. A particularly malicious shift pattern, whereby, from half-way up the beat, you find that no matter which way you go, the next shift will again make the weather mark directly upwind. On a really perverse day you can find yourself beating to the mark after that too.