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n. A line whose distance to a given curve tends to zero. An asymptote may or may not intersect its associated curve.

n. A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity".

n. Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.

v. To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.

n. A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

In mathematics, approaching indefinitely close, as a line to a curve, but never meeting. See II.

n. A straight line whose distance from a curve is less than any assignable quantity, but which does not meet the curve at any finite distance from the origin.

n. In zoology, either of two straight lines drawn from the apex to the aperture of the conical part of the phragmocone in the belemnites or fossil dibranchiate cephalopods.

n. a straight line that is the limiting value of a curve; can be considered as tangent at infinity

"In that case, if you plot the number of record highs or lows on a graph, you'd get a line that falls gradually as time progresses toward an asymptote, which is mathematically expressed as 1/n, where n is the number of years in your data set."

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