asymptotic
IPA: ˈæsɪmptɔtɪk
adjective
- (mathematics) Pertaining to values or properties approached at infinity.
- (mathematical analysis) Coming into consideration as a variable tends to a limit, usually infinity.
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Examples of "asymptotic" in Sentences
- Asymptotic growth of a sequence.
- Asymptotically optimal algorithm.
- Precision of the asymptotic series.
- Asymptotic computational complexity.
- Asymptotic growth of the Catalan numbers.
- For large this variance decreases asymptotically as .
- The aim of the asymptotic approach is to simplify the object.
- The older I get the less I seem to believe in asymptotic futures.
- This is supported by the asymptotic formulae below for the Airy functions.
- The directions of the asymptotes are the same as the asymptotic directions.
- Only "asymptotic" independence is required according to certain conditions.
- I hope at least the idea of asymptotic vs. local response proves useful to you.
- Yet the wave length of the photon at “- infinity” is equal to that at “infinity,” where these are defined as asymptotic regions.
- In contrast, socialists and radicals envisage a future society, if only as a kind of asymptotic goal, in which distinctions of class and rank are abolished.
- If the shooter always puts the bullet in the same chamber, the probability that is, the asymptotic quotient of number of guys killed versus number of shots fired is not 1/6.
- First, peace is more about process than result, in the sense that there is no "there" there; it is sometimes said that peace is asymptotic, meaning that we may approach but never reach a final destination where all issues are settled.
- In Sloan’s very last scan, it found a star of the kind that Jill Knapp studied in her pre-Sloan days, an extremely massive star called an asymptotic giant branch star, normally too bright for the CCDs, but this one was obscured by a shell of dust.
- W remembered looking up the term while reading Fredric Jameson, who used "asymptotic" to describe the relation between the symbolic and the real, and to argue that just because language didn't touch the real, we shouldn't assume that the real didn't exist (Ideologies, 104).