An asymptotic function.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : asymptotic property; asymptotic behavior.    From Dictionary.com. 

The older I get the less I seem to believe in asymptotic futures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book 18: Halting State] Reference

I hope at least the idea of asymptotic vs. local response proves useful to you.    From Wordnik.com.  [WSJ: House Energy report on the "mutual admiration society" « Climate Audit] Reference

Yet the wave length of the photon at “- infinity” is equal to that at “infinity,” where these are defined as asymptotic regions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

Only "asymptotic" independence is required according to certain conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tail Events WILL happen] Reference

John Currence actually used the words, "asymptotic" and "synapse" within a 5 minute span.    From Wordnik.com.  [VarmintBites] Reference

This feature of QCD is called asymptotic freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scientist Online] Reference

From your description it sounds like an asymptotic line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka.] Reference

One is led to study the asymptotic domain in which the parameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intertheory Relations in Physics] Reference

PhD students when their discovery of asymptotic freedom was published.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004] Reference

I was an arctic sunset, an asymptotic twilight, I would never die out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

Energy circuit language and energy transformation in asymptotic growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howard T. Odum (publications)] Reference

No small wonder that my approach to the ending has been asymptotic at best.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's a Splendisaster] Reference

    I was an arctic sunset, an asymptotic twilight, I would never die out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

This property, called asymptotic freedom, means that the beta function is negative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public] Reference

Thanks to the asymptotic freedom in QCD it is now possible to calculate this process.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Information for the Public] Reference

He computed particular values of his asymptotic formula for Pn correct to five decimals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

That is, why do you think it will be more successful in reversing that asymptotic decline?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Background Briefing On South Korea Kim Visit] Reference

Theo other question is what is happening during the AGB asymptotic giant branch is highly complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Giant Brightness Variations Still Mysterious | Universe Today] Reference

Dynamical Origins of PCA: We will give examples of the asymptotic PCA property 2.125 for two systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roll Over, Preisendorfer « Climate Audit] Reference

These “asymptotic giant branch” stars form when a moderately massive star begins to run out of fuel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shocking!] Reference

Those are S-matrix elements and they depends on having an asymptotic region where the physics simplifies.    From Wordnik.com.  [How many dimensions are there?] Reference

Hence, I believe we only have to make one theory, and it is one without boundary or asymptotic conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Landscape - For Real This Time] Reference

In a finite neighborhood, the curve is necessarily asymptotic to the number of sustainable obese squirrels.    From Wordnik.com.  [And they big ones are harder on fenders.] Reference

He also seems to agree with Gavin that there can be no physical meaning to an asymptotic intercept of a log plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Gavin Schmidt Honest? « Climate Audit] Reference

He discusses a range of striking phenomena arising at singular asymptotic limits for the relation of the two theories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emergent Properties] Reference

No. Whether the number of founders in the same position is asymptotic or merely large, there are certainly a lot of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pooled-Risk Company Management Company] Reference

The hyperbolic asymptotic behavior insures that some sequences will head off “to infinity” with no finite convergence.    From Wordnik.com.  [What’s the (Dark) Matter?] Reference

See 1, they used small-disturbance asymptotic approximations to obtain asymptotic bias of the classical calibration estimator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juckes Omnibus « Climate Audit] Reference

You know he's taking asymptotic amounts of artistic license when IMF-types start sounding and acting like spy-novel characters.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stay Within Hailing Distance."] Reference

The beauty of the asymptotic curve is that at every step along the way, running ever faster for the plane is totally justified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hurry! | Impact Lab] Reference

At this rate he still had twelve minutes to go, and he began to wonder despairingly if he was involved in an asymptotic approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fountains of Paradise]

This is where I started on the path that led to the discovery of asymptotic freedom and QCD (the story told in my Nobel lecture.).    From Wordnik.com.  [David J. Gross - Autobiography] Reference

This is called "asymptotic freedom" and its discovery won a Nobel prize last year for Frank Wilczek and Davids Gross and Politzer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: July 17, 2005 - July 23, 2005 Archives] Reference

The initial rate of expansion is taken to be 10 percent per year, with the power capacity becoming asymptotic to 500 million kilowatts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nuclear Energy and the Fossil Fuels (historical)] Reference

You have been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for your discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interactions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Physics 2004 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Plot consumption against supply and there emerges an asymptotic curve of diminishing – and disastrous – consumption that ends at zero.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!] Reference

The lines along which our minds travel can at the best be asymptotic, approaching each other indefinitely near, but never quite coinciding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friendship] Reference