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Ultimate
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What's The Definition Of Ultimate?
[adj] being the last or concluding element of a series; "the ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
[adj] furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme; "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question"; "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult"; "one's ultimate goal in life" [adj] being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything; "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ultimate: crowning(a) | elemental | eventual(a) | farthest | final | highest | last | last-ditch | net | simple | supreme Related Terms | Find terms related to Ultimate: See Also | Ultimate In Webster's Dictionary \Ul"ti*mate\, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L.
ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last,
superl. from the same source as ulterior. See {Ulterior}, and
cf. {Ultimatum}.]
1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last;
final.
My harbor, and my ultimate repose. --Milton.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive
to this our ultimate happiness. --Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended
toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last
result; final.
Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of
thought which we can not rationally contradict.
--Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate constituent of matter.
{Ultimate analysis} (Chem.), organic analysis. See under
{Organic}.
{Ultimate belief}. See under {Belief}.
{Ultimate ratio} (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or
that toward which a series tends, and which it does not
pass.
Syn: Final; conclusive. See {Final}.
\Ul"ti*mate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Ultimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ultimating}.] 1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.] 2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.] |
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