ASYMPTOTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asymptotic mean? 

• ASYMPTOTIC (adjective)
  The adjective ASYMPTOTIC has 1 sense:

1. relating to or of the nature of an asymptote

  Familiarity information: ASYMPTOTIC used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASYMPTOTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or of the nature of an asymptote

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

an asymptotic function

Pertainym:

asymptote (a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity)

Derivation:

asymptote (a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity)

 Context examples 

U Antliae is a carbon star, an evolved, cool and luminous star of the asymptotic giant branch type.

(Ageing Star Blows Off Smoky Bubble, ESO)

More precisely, it is used to describe an asymptotic upper bound for the magnitude of a function in terms of another, usually simpler, function.

(Big-O Notation, NCI Thesaurus)

A theoretical measure of the execution of an algorithm, usually the time or memory needed, given the problem size n, which is usually the number of items; a mathematical notation used to describe the asymptotic behavior of functions.

(Big-O Notation, NCI Thesaurus)