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Blobfish vs Asymptote - What's the difference?

blobfish | asymptote |

As nouns the difference between blobfish and asymptote

is that blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus, a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania while asymptote is a straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity".

As a verb asymptote is

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

blobfish

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Psychrolutes marcidus , a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of the Australian mainland and Tasmania.

    • External links

    * ("blobfish" on Wikipedia) * (Psychrolutes marcidus) *

    asymptote

    English

    (wikipedia asymptote)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity".
  • (by extension, figuratively) Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
  • * 1860 : Frederic William Farrar, An Essay on the Origin of Language , page 117
    • Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote .

    Derived terms

    * asymptotic * asymptotics * asymptotical * asymptotically

    Verb

  • (analysis) To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.
  • * 2006 : Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance Neil deGrasse Tyson: Take 2 - Why evolution is true. 25 February 2013
    • As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes .

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