asymptote

How To Use asymptote In A Sentence

• Buchannan, at least, I think he can't displace; the man was practically an asymptote. "Edge Of Darkness" (2010)
• For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• It will at once be seen that E_z_ is less than D_x_, and that since the normal at P is vertical and infinite, the evolute of DPE will consist of two branches _x_N, _z_M, to which the vertical normal PL is a common asymptote. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
• In math, this idea is represented as a limit of a function oscillating and eventually approaching an asymptote; in physics this is known as damped oscillations (for all the math and science geeks). Auren Hoffman: When and Why We Pendulum
• The pedal curve of the cissoid, when the pedal point is on the axis beyond the asymptote, at distance from the cusp four times that of the asymptote, is a cardioid.
• This article elaborates the solution of asymptote of rational function curve, pointing out both the common way of finding limit value and the elementary way.
• What part of an inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote don't you understand? MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)
• Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• Like the asymptote, you are always approaching your goal, but you never achieve it.
• Little did they know that they were just a literary device for explaining the asymptote opposite to Ralph and Piggy, the social cage where expected behavior overwhelms the individual totally. All New York's a stage, and all the Mad Men and Women merely players