Ultima

//ˈʌltɪmə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The final syllable of a word. countable
  2. 2
    the last syllable in a word wordnet
  3. 3
    A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset. uncountable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia
  2. 2
    The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.

    "For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time."

  3. 3
    Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).

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baroquedvommadvoldvommadvol

Example

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"Dragon Quest streamlined the mechanics of existing RPG series such as Ultima, making the genre accessible to a wider public inside and outside Japan."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

Etymology 2

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

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