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In the manner of an asymptote.
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1675 J. Gregory Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 277 Whether asymptotically approached..may be worth consideration.
1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) ii. xv. 418 The theory is not a thing complete from the first, but a thing which grows, as it were asymptotically, towards certainty.
1886 A. B. Bruce Mirac. Elem. in Gospels i. 42 A moral ideal which in the natural order of things can never be more than asymptotically approximated.
1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech viii. 63 The resonance curve of a damped sonator..approaches asymptotically, but never reaches, a zero level of power.
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