Asymptote

Definitions

1. A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely as it goes to infinity. The limit of the curve; its tangent "at infinity".
2. Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
   broadly, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.”

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