ἀσύμπτωτος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ον, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[not falling in]], [[full]], of face or body, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Hum.</span>4</span>, Gal.11.25, al.; [[not closing]], of the edges of a wound, ἀ. χείλη Antyll. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.7.11.10</span>; [[not liable to collapse]], <span class="bibl">Anon.Lond.26.50</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[not touching]], τῇ ψυχῇ <span class="bibl">Plu.<span class="title">Lib.</span> 7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> esp. in Math., of lines or planes [[which never meet]], e. g. parallel straight lines, Hero <b class="b2">*Deff</b>.70; of lines [[which do not cut]] a curve, [[non-secant]], ἀ. τῇ τομῇ αἱ ΓΔ, ΓΕ <span class="bibl">Apollon.Perg.<span class="title">Con.</span>2.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">14</span>; [[ἀσύμπτωτος]] (sc. [[γραμμή]]), ἡ, [[asymptote]], of the hyperbola, ib.<span class="bibl">2.3</span>, etc.; of the conchoid, <span class="bibl">Procl.<span class="title">in Euc.</span>p.366</span> F.</span>