Usually means: Line approached by curve indefinitely.
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  1. asymptote: Merriam-Webster
  2. asymptote: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asymptote: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asymptote: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asymptote: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asymptote, asymptote: Wordnik
  7. asymptote: Wiktionary
  8. asymptote: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. asymptote: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. asymptote: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. asymptote: Dictionary.com
  12. asymptote: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Asymptote (disambiguation), Asymptote (journal), Asymptote (magazine), Asymptote (vector graphics language), Asymptote: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Asymptote: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. asymptote: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. asymptote: Rhymezone
  17. Asymptote: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. asymptote: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. asymptote: FreeDictionary.org
  20. asymptote: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. asymptote: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. asymptote: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asymptote: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. asymptote: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Asymptote: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. asymptote: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Asymptote, asymptote: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (asymptote)

noun:  (mathematical analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
noun:  (by extension, figuratively) Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
verb:  (mathematical analysis) To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.

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