Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AS'YMP-TOTE
AS'YMP-TOTE, n. [Gr. α privative and συν, with, and πτοω, to fall; not meeting or coinciding.]
A line which approaches nearer and nearer to some curve, but though infinitely extended, would never meet it. This may be conceived as a tangent to a curve at an infinite distance. Chambers.
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