The exponential function has a horizontal asymptote.
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Asymptote
//ˈæsɪmptəʊ̯t//
Synonyms for "asymptote" (24 found)
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Closest matches (5)
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Related words (12)
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34 translations across 29 languages.
Asturian
1 entries- asíntota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Basque
1 entries- asintota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Bengali
1 entries- অসীমতট noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Catalan
1 entries- asímptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Czech
1 entries- asymptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Dutch
1 entries- asymptoot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Finnish
1 entries- asymptootti noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
French
1 entries- asymptote noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Galician
1 entries- asíntota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
German
1 entries- Asymptote noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Greek
1 entries- ασύμπτωτος noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Hebrew
1 entries- אָסִימְפְּטוֹטָה noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Hindi
1 entries- अनंतस्पर्शी noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Hungarian
1 entries- aszimptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Icelandic
2 entries- aðfella noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
- ósnertill noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Ido
1 entries- asimptoto noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Indonesian
1 entries- asimtot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Italian
1 entries- asintoto noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Japanese
1 entries- 漸近線 noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Malay
1 entries- asimptot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Māori
2 entries- rārangi pātata noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
- tepe whakatata noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Polish
1 entries- asymptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Portuguese
4 entries- assimptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
- assintota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
- assímptota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
- assíntota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Romanian
1 entries- asimptotă noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Russian
1 entries- асимпто́та noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Spanish
1 entries- asíntota noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Swedish
1 entries- asymptot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Turkish
1 entries- asimptot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Welsh
1 entries- asymptot noun (a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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 of irrational numbers (F₁) and smote it so grievously that it fell two decimal places and lost an epsilon, but the beast slid around an asymptote and hid in an n-dimensional orthogonal phase space, underwent expansion and came out, fuming factorially, and fell upon the King and hurt him passing sore.
Source: wiktionary
Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.
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2006: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes.
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