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Ultimate   /ˈəltəmət/   Listen
adjective
Ultimate  adj.  
1.
Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. "My harbor, and my ultimate repose." "Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness."
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."
3.
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; 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.
Synonyms: Final; conclusive. See Final.


verb
Ultimate  v. t. & v. i.  (past & past part. ultimated; pres. part. ultimating)  
1.
To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end. (R.)
2.
To come or bring into use or practice. (R.)





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... involving, as it sometimes seemed, the ultimate aesthetic redemption of the whole human race; and provisionally restoring the sense of beauty to those unhappy millions of our fellow country-men who, as Ambrose movingly pointed out, now live and die in surroundings of unperceived and ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton
... attention of the inquiring student. Why is it that certain cultural materials are more widely and more rapidly diffused than others? Under what conditions does this diffusion take place and why does it take place at all? Finally, what is the ultimate source of customs, beliefs, languages, religious practices, and all the varied technical devices which compose the cultures of different peoples? What are the circumstances and what are the processes by which cultural traits are independently created? Under what ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... had felt her heart stand still. She set her little teeth now, recalling it. For the extent of his deformity was fully apparent for once. And, apprehending that which he proposed to do, she was smitten by immense curiosity to realise the ultimate of the grotesque in respect of his appearance as he should move, walk, grope in the dimness over there after the lost crystal. But there are some indulgences which can be bought at too high a price, and along with ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... supernatural intuition than by enlightened reason, intended it should be inspired; and this shall be done as nearly as possible in his own words. The following sentences, found in one of his diaries and quoted some chapters back, embody what may be deemed his ultimate principle: ...
— Life of Father Hecker • Walter Elliott
... representative must at the same time appear as their master, as an authority over them, as an unlimited governmental power, that protects them from above, bestows rain and sunshine upon them. Accordingly, the political influence of the allotment farmer finds its ultimate expression in an Executive power that subjugates the commonweal ...
— The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte • Karl Marx


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