OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 11322

asymptote

/ˈæsɪmptəʊ̯t/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asíntota
A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
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…
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