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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, a. [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.
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              My harbor, and my ultimate repose.    --Milton.
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              Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive
              to this our ultimate happiness.       --Addison.
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     2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended
        toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last
        result; final.
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              Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of
              thought which we can not rationally contradict.
                                                    --Coleridge.
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     3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
        division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
        ultimate constituent of matter.
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     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.
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     Syn: Final; conclusive. See Final.
          [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  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.]
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     2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. Analyses. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to
     unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ?
     to loose. See Loose.]
     1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses
        or of the intellect, into its constituent or original
        elements; an examination of the component parts of a
        subject, each separately, as the words which compose a
        sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions
        which enter into an argument. It is opposed to
        synthesis.
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     2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by
        chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to
        ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how
        much of each element is present. The former is called
        qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the
        resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
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     4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the
        conditions that are in them to equations.
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     5.
        (a) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a
            discourse, disposed in their natural order.
        (b) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of
            a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with
            synopsis.
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     6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a
        species, or its place in a system of classification, by
        means of an analytical table or key.
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     Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and
     Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate,
        Proximate, Qualitative, etc.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  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.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, a. [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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. Analyses. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to
     unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ?
     to loose. See Loose.]
     1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses
        or of the intellect, into its constituent or original
        elements; an examination of the component parts of a
        subject, each separately, as the words which compose a
        sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions
        which enter into an argument. It is opposed to
        synthesis.
  
     2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by
        chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to
        ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how
        much of each element is present. The former is called
        qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.
  
     3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the
        resolving of knowledge into its original principles.
  
     4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the
        conditions that are in them to equations.
  
     5.
        (a) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a
            discourse, disposed in their natural order.
        (b) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of
            a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with
            synopsis.
  
     6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a
        species, or its place in a system of classification, by
        means of an analytical table or key.
  
     Ultimate, Proximate, Qualitative, Quantitative, and
     Volumetric analysis. (Chem.) See under Ultimate,
        Proximate, Qualitative, etc.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  ultimate
       adj 1: furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme;
              "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question";
              "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult";
              "one's ultimate goal in life" [ant: proximate]
       2: being the last or concluding element of a series; "the
          ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the
          verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the
          stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
       3: being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything;
          "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of
          life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate
          ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple"
          [syn: elemental]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     Αγγλικά a.
     1 ύστατος, έσχατος, τελικός, οριστικός
     2 βασικός
     3 που είναι στο μεγαλύτερο δυνατό βαθμό ή έκταση, υπέρτατος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     Finnish n.
     ultimate frisbee (gloss: game)
     Italian vb.
     (inflection of it ultimare  2 p pres indc ; 2 p impr)
     Italian part.p.
     (feminine plural of it ultimato)
     Spanish vb.
     (es-verb form of: ultimar)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     a.
     1 final; last in a series.
     2 (lb en of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
     3 Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
     4 Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
     5 That will happen at some time; eventual.
     6 Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by
  all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
     7 Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or
  separation; constituent; elemental.
     n.
     1 The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
     2 The final or most distant point; the conclusion
     3 The greatest extremity; the maximum
     4 (lb en uncountable sports) (ellipsis of en ultimate
  frisbee/ultimate disc)
     vb.
     (lb en transitive archaic) To finish; to complete.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     Finnish n.
     ultimate frisbee (gloss: game)
     Italian vb.
     (inflection of it ultimare  2 p pres indc ; 2 p impr)
     Italian part.p.
     (feminine plural of it ultimato)
     Spanish vb.
     (es-verb form of: ultimar)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     Finnish n.
     ultimate frisbee (gloss: game)
     Italian vb.
     (inflection of it ultimare  2 p pres indc ; 2 p impr)
     Italian part.p.
     (feminine plural of it ultimato)
     Spanish vb.
     (es-verb form of: ultimar)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     n.
     liitokiekko pelattava joukkuelaji

From Finnish Wiktionary: Finnish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-fi-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     n.
     liitokiekko pelattava joukkuelaji

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     Engelska a.
     1 ultimat, yttersta; slutlig
     2 slutgiltig, avgörande
     3 så perfekt som möjligt, allra bäst

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Ultimate
     Tyska n.
     ultimate

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  ultimate
     a.
     (böjning sv adj ultimat)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Ultimate /ˈʌltɪmət/
  نهائي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  ultimate //ˈʌltəmɪt// //ˈʌltɪmɪt// 
  1. неизбе́жен, немину́ем
  eventual
  2. кра́ен, после́ден
  final; last in a series
  3. най‑[[голя́м]], най‑висш, пъ́лен, съвърше́н
  greatest or maximum
  4. после́ден
  last in a word or other utterance
  5. най‑[[дале́чен]], най‑[[отдалече́н]]
  most distant