ultima

IPA: ˈʌɫtɪmʌ

(grammar, prosody, countable) The final syllable of a word.
(finance, uncountable) 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.
A town in Victoria, Australia.
The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”)

Examples of "ultima" in Sentences

Medieval maps used to use the phrase ultima Thule to denote anywhere far enough to lie beyond the "borders of the known world".
The deal European leaders worked out late Thursday holds out the possibility of bilateral loans (and IMF aid) to any troubled euro-zone country but only as an "ultima ratio" and "if market financing is insufficient."
(by nature or position), and on either the penult or the antepenult, the circumflex is found only on long vowels, and (in words of more than one syllable) only on the penult, and then only in case the ultima is short.
"We need an agreement that as an ultima ratio it's possible to exclude a country from the euro zone if again and again it doesn't fulfill the requirements," Ms. Merkel said in an address to Germany's lower house of parliament.
The EU leaders agreed that any aid to Greece must be an "ultima ratio," or last resort, if it becomes clear Greece can't raise enough funds from the market and that loans wouldn't include any element of subsidy and would thus be in line with existing EU laws.