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Final; last in a series. quotations examples
[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England, page 15
(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance. examples
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. quotations examples
Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, page vii
Being the most distant or extreme; farthest. examples
That will happen at some time; eventual. examples
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. quotations examples
those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental. examples
countable and uncountable, plural ultimates
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things examples
The final or most distant point; the conclusion examples
The greatest extremity; the maximum examples
(uncountable, sports) Ellipsis of ultimate frisbee/ultimate disc. examples
third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated
(transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete. quotations
These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.
1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine, volume 41, page 36