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Ultima

Noun CEFR B1
ˈʌltɪmə

Definitions

  1. The final syllable of a word.
  2. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia
  3. The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
  4. Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).
  5. 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.

Equivalents

Portuguêsúltima
Italianoultima
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Ελληνικάλήγουσα
Suomiultima
Bahasa Indonesiaultima

Examples

For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designatedUltimaandThule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.”
Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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