different between asymptote vs symptom

English

Etymology

circa 1650, from Ancient Greek ????????? (asúmpt?t?), the feminine of Apollonius Pergaeus' (circa 200 BC) Ancient Greek adjective ?????????? (asúmpt?tos, “not falling together”), from ? (a, “not”) +? ??? (sún, “together”) +? ?????? (pt?tós, “fallen”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æs?mpto??t/, /?æs?mto??t/, /?e??s?mto??t/, /?æs?mt?t/

Noun

asymptote (plural asymptotes)

1. (mathematical analysis) A straight line which a curve approaches arbitrarily closely, as they go to infinity. The limit of the curve, its tangent "at infinity".
2. (by extension, figuratively) Anything which comes near to but never meets something else.
   • 1860: Frederic William Farrar, An Essay on the Origin of Language, page 117

     Language, in relation to thought, must ever be regarded as an asymptote.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

asymptote (third-person singular simple present asymptotes, present participle asymptoting, simple past and past participle asymptoted)

1. (mathematical analysis) To approach, but never quite touch, a straight line, as something goes to infinity.
   • 2006: Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Perimeter of Ignorance

     As you become more scientific, yes, the religiosity drops off, but it asymptotes.

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????????? (asúmpt?tos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.s??p.t?t/

Noun

asymptote f (plural asymptotes)

1. (mathematical analysis) asymptote

Derived terms

• asymptotique

Further reading

• “asymptote” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m(p)t?m/
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom (plural symptoms)

1. (medicine) A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash.

2. (figuratively) A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.

Synonyms

• indication
• manifestation
• sign, signal
• See also Thesaurus:symptom

Antonyms

• Treatment of symptoms versus treatment of cause

Derived terms

• symptomatology
• symptomless

Related terms

• asymptomatic
• asymptote
• symptomatic

Translations

Further reading

• symptom in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• symptom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Czech

Etymology

From German Symptom from Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?mptom]

Noun

symptom m

1. symptom

Declension

Related terms

• symptomatický

References

Danish

Noun

symptom n (singular definite symptomet, plural indefinite symptomer)

1. symptom

Declension

Derived terms

• symptomfri

Related terms

• symptomatisk

References

• “symptom” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”), from stem of ???????? (sumpípt?, “? befall”), from ???- (sun-, “together”) + ????? (pípt?, “I fall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?mp?tu?m/
• Rhymes: -u?m
• Hyphenation: symp?tom

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom or symptomer, definite plural symptoma or symptomene)

1. symptom

Derived terms

• abstinenssymptom

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

symptom n (definite singular symptomet, indefinite plural symptom, definite plural symptoma)

1. symptom

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m.pt?m/

Noun

symptom m inan

1. symptom

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

In the Swedish language since 1730. From Ancient Greek ???????? (súmpt?ma, “a happening, accident, symptom of disease”).

Noun

symptom n

1. Dated form of symtom (“symptom”).