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ultimate

ˈəltəmət
WordNet
With the ultimately used page reference and captions in handwriting.
With the ultimately used page reference and captions in handwriting.
  1. (adj) ultimate
    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"
  2. (adj) ultimate
    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"
  3. (n) ultimate
    the finest or most superior quality of its kind "the ultimate in luxury"
Illustrations
Tray with 4 rows depicting a chimney sweep stealing a princess's sedan chair. Ultimately, the princess falls in love with the chimney sweep. A caption under each performance. Numbered top left: Série 1. - No. 1.
Tray with 4 rows depicting a chimney sweep stealing a princess's sedan chair. Ultimately, the princess falls in love with the chimney sweep. A caption under each performance. Numbered top left: Série 1. - No. 1.
Originally intended as a design for a frontispiece, but ultimately not used
Allegory: The History of the Study of Truth
Depiction of Arion playing the lyre on the dolphin, 1577. Part (ultimately not performed) of the entry of William of Orange into Brussels, September 18, 1577.
Depiction of Arion playing the lyre on the dolphin, 1577. Part (ultimately not performed) of the entry of William of Orange into Brussels, September 18, 1577.
Portrait of John Hamden, with a cartouche below the portrait depicting his ultimately fatal injury during the battle of Chalgrove on June 18, 1643.
Portrait of John Hamden, with a cartouche below the portrait depicting his ultimately fatal injury during the battle of Chalgrove on June 18, 1643.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Eddie Arcaro, one of the greatest jockeys in horse race history, rode 250 losers before he won his first race. Ultimately, Arcaro won 4,779 races including five Derby winners, six in the Preakness, and six in the Belmont Stakes, on such famous horses as Whirlaway, Citation, and Kelso.
  1. Ultimate
    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. Ultimate
    Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
  3. Ultimate
    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."
  4. Ultimate
    To come or bring into use or practice.
  5. Ultimate
    To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
  1. ultimate
    In meck., final; ‘breaking'; specifically, noting the strain required to “break a piece of material.
  2. ultimate
    Furthest; most remote in place.
  3. ultimate
    Last; the last of a series of three or more members, especially of a series in which an inquiry is traced from one member to another: as, the ultimate signification of a phrase; an ultimate principle; an ultimate fact. Ultimate applies to the last of a series of events in time, as well as to other series. In special cases it is synonymous with final, except that it implies at least two preceding members, which final does not; and this circumstance gives the idea of a climax, and so emphasizes ultimate. But more frequently the series to which ultimate refers is a regressive one, so that it is quite opposed to final. Thus, ultimate cause means the original cause beyond which no causation can be traced; but final cause is the end toward which action is directed.
  4. ultimate
    In entomology, specifically noting a stage of the second larva, after the third molt, of those insects which undergo hypermetamorphosis, as the blister-beetles (Meloidæ), It succeeds the scarabæidoid stage, and is followed by the coarctate larva.
  5. ultimate
    Synonyms Eventual, Conclusive, etc. See final.
  6. ultimate
    To result finally; end.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The main active chemical in marijuana is THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). The membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to THC. Once securely in place, THC kicks off a series of cellular reactions that ultimately lead to the high that users experience when they smoke marijuana
  1. (adj) Ultimate
    ul′ti-māt furthest: last: incapable of further division
Quotations
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
Les Brown
Nick Faldo
The word is control. That's my ultimate -- to have control.
Nick Faldo
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
Lester Bangs
The ultimate umpire of all things in life is -- fact.
Agnes C. Laut
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 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

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. ultimus, the last, superl. of ulter.

Usage in the news

Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:50 pm by Ultimate Astros in General. blog.chron.com

I still think that system works, that it provides the ultimate reward for more cities -- meaningful September games -- than any drawback. nypost.com

"Up" got the ultimate pat on the back this past weekend when it took home an Oscar. abclocal.go.com

Ultimate Adventure 2012 Part 2. 4wheeloffroad.com

Razer has also updated its original BlackWidow and the Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Edition. pcmag.com

La Liga's ultimate late bloomer . espn.go.com

Posted on July 18, 2012 at 6:36 pm by Ultimate Rockets in General. blog.chron.com

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Adam Slack is realistic about what ultimately drives the success of small businesses — dollars and cents. knoxnews.com

Just the day before, one unlucky bot , Kalika Srivasinsen, met with the ultimate bot -humiliation. ired.com

While up on the cat walk above the high school auditorium, she fell and ultimately died. morgannews.us

Last night's ultimate story wasn't about Benitez's first day. nytimes.com

Is not without its ultimate benefit for men. laweekly.com

From chocolate trout to 'turtle brittle ,' it's the Ultimate. jsonline.com

Lori Presser-Murphy What she does: owns Ultimate Confections, Wauwatosa. jsonline.com

Still, Bromberg eventually found himself feeling burned out, and ultimately took 17 years off leading up to the 2007 release of Try Me One More Time. kwgs.org

Usage in scientific papers

It follows that the number of negative eigenvalues of each of the matrices in (3.3) is a nondecreasing function of the order of the matrix, and this number is ultimately equal to κ in each case (see the result in Section 4).
A note on interpolation in the generalized Schur class

It is certainly true that science rests ultimately on what we know.
Quantum theory and the role of mind in nature

Ultimately, the system will flow towards U (N ) matrix string theory.
Duality Cascade and Oblique Phases in Non-Commutative Open String Theory

We see that with increasing fb , both Bmax and Beq decreases and ultimately reaches an asymptotic limit.
Characteristics Of A Magnetic Buoyancy Driven Solar Dynamo Model

It is also the ultimate energy source of the whole Universe.
Gauge Theory of Gravity

Usage in literature

Thus the ultimate fact for sense-awareness is an event. "The Concept of Nature" by Alfred North Whitehead

His whole being shrank under the untold agony of this mother's denial and ultimate appeal. "The Triumph of John Kars" by Ridgwell Cullum

He ultimately undertook the editorial superintendence of a religious periodical. "The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV." by Various

They will be ultimately, if not directly, discriminative. "Applied Eugenics" by Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

But for those who acknowledged the new prophecy all this was ultimately nothing but a means. "History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)" by Adolph Harnack

It is fortunate that the patroon system, unlike slavery, was ultimately uprooted without revolution. "The Land We Live In" by Henry Mann

What is more natural than that they should be the Ultimate Watchers? "A Preface to Politics" by Walter Lippmann

See whether you can show that validity of reasoning rests ultimately on correct perceptions. "The Mind and Its Education" by George Herbert Betts

Yet he was profoundly convinced that the ultimate victory of Islam depended upon the sword. "The Necessity of Atheism" by Dr. D.M. Brooks

The ultimate prospect is portentous. "The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864" by Various

Usage in poetry
Serfs to a sordid duty,
He saw them with his heart,
Priests of the Ultimate Beauty,
Feeding the flame of art.
No man knoweth our desolation;
Memory pales of the old delight;
While the sad waters of separation
Bear us on to the ultimate night.
Till Heaven cracks, and Hell thereunder
Dies in her ultimate mad fire,
And darkness falls, with scornful thunder,
On dreams of men and men's desire.
Unweariedly he waits from day to day,
Nor knows, as I know now, that when we meet,
'Twill be as dewdrop on the hawthorn spray,--
The ultimate of God at last complete.
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.
And they who see and comprehend
That ultimate and lofty aim
Will wait in patience for the end,
Knowing injustice cannot claim
One lasting victory, or control
Laws that bar progress for the whole.