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ultimate |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ultimate \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.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ultimate \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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl {Analyses}. [Gr. ?, fr ? to unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ? to loose. See {Loose}.] 1. A resolution of anything whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to {synthesis}. 2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either a what elements it contains, or b how much of each element is present. The former is called {qualitative}, and the latter {quantitative analysis}. 3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles. 4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations. 5. a A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order b A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis. 6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key. {Ultimate}, {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, {Quantitative}, and {Volumetric analysis}. (Chem.) See under {Ultimate}, {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ultimate adj 1: 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" [ant: {proximate}] 2: 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" 3: 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" [syn: {elemental}]
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