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Word: Asymptote
Speech Type: Noun
mid 17th century: from modern Latin asymptota (linea) ‘(line) not meeting’, from Greek asumptōtos ‘not falling together’, from a- ‘not’ + sun ‘together’ + ptōtos ‘apt to fall’ (from piptein ‘to fall’)
ˈasɪm(p)təʊt
a straight line that continually approaches a given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance.
Short Definition:straight line that continually approaches given curve but does not meet it at any finite distance
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