Category:Ultimate

Ul"ti*mate, a. Etym: [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.

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.]