asymptotic

The older I get the less I seem to believe in asymptotic futures.

Book 18: Halting State eddvick 2008

If the shooter always puts the bullet in the same chamber, the probability that is, the asymptotic quotient of number of guys killed versus number of shots fired is not 1/6.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Feds to Target Texting? 2009

Yet the wave length of the photon at “- infinity” is equal to that at “infinity,” where these are defined as asymptotic regions.

A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007

I hope at least the idea of asymptotic vs. local response proves useful to you.

WSJ: House Energy report on the "mutual admiration society" « Climate Audit 2006

First, peace is more about process than result, in the sense that there is no "there" there; it is sometimes said that peace is asymptotic, meaning that we may approach but never reach a final destination where all issues are settled.

Randall Amster: The Obama Dividend: Is World Peace Finally Possible? 2009

Only "asymptotic" independence is required according to certain conditions.

Tail Events WILL happen Mumon 2005

W remembered looking up the term while reading Fredric Jameson, who used "asymptotic" to describe the relation between the symbolic and the real, and to argue that just because language didn't touch the real, we shouldn't assume that the real didn't exist (Ideologies, 104).

The Sorrows of Young Wieboldt 1997

W remembered looking up the term while reading Fredric Jameson, who used "asymptotic" to describe the relation between the symbolic and the real, and to argue that just because language didn't touch the real, we shouldn't assume that the real didn't exist (Ideologies, 104).

The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

In contrast, socialists and radicals envisage a future society, if only as a kind of asymptotic goal, in which distinctions of class and rank are abolished.

CLASS LEWIS A. COSER 1968

In Sloan’s very last scan, it found a star of the kind that Jill Knapp studied in her pre-Sloan days, an extremely massive star called an asymptotic giant branch star, normally too bright for the CCDs, but this one was obscured by a shell of dust.

A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010