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• a  relating to or of the nature of an asymptote
  an asymptotic function

• He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand.

News & Articles

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• Throwback Thursday: Have we found our last fundamental particle? (Synopsis) [Starts With A Bang]
  “The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.” -James Smithson Now that the Higgs has been discovered, the Standard Model is complete. But are there any other new particles? If asymptotic safety is right — and it’s looking like the…
  March 28, 2014 - ScienceBlogs

Quotes

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• Mike Dunleavy in USA Today
  Neither one of those guys has had any issues with any of the things that are even being talked about. All I know is that if Cuttino has anything, he's been asymptotic,Dunleavy said. "He's never had any issue with us. There's never been one...
• Carl Sagan in The Atlantic (blog)
  As is often the case, Carl Sagan said it best: "We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truth - never there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered...