asymptote
pronunciation
How to pronounce asymptote in British English:
UK ['æsɪmptəʊt]
How to pronounce asymptote in American English:
US ['æsɪmˌtoʊt]
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- Noun:
- a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity
Word Origin
- asymptote (n.)
- "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.
Example
- 1. A hyperbola approaches but does not meet its asymptote .
- 2. Relating to or of the nature of an asymptote .
- 3. When gillen was laid off in december 2008 by asymptote architecture , a new york firm , he hunkered down in his brooklyn apartment , trying to stave off the " vibe of hopelessness . "
- 4. I think we can only be inside the hyperbolic geometry and its asymptote .