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ultima

/ˈʌltɪmə/

ultima noun: the final syllable of a word.

Noun

ultima (countable and uncountable, plural ultimas)

  1. (countable) The final syllable of a word.
  2. (uncountable) A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vomma with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
    Synonyms:
    DvommaDvol

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Ultima

Ultima

  1. A town in the Rural City of Swan Hill, north western Victoria, Australia

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Ultima

Ultima

  1. The larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule, a contact binary object.
    • For the purposes of discussion, MU₆₉’s larger and smaller lobes have been informally designated “Ultima” and “Thule,” respectively, by the New Horizons team. Ultima and Thule have best-fit measured diameters of ~19.5 and ~14.2km, respectively, with errors of only a few percent at this time.2019 January 24, Stern, S. A., J. R. Spencer, H. A. Weaver, C. B. Olkin, J. M. Moore, W. Grundy, R. Gladstone et al., “Overview of initial results from the reconnaissance flyby of a Kuiper Belt...
    • Ultima and Thule have similar colors with measured albedos ∼0.06, indicating that UT is a typical member of the Cold Classical Kuiper Belt class of objects.2020, Umurhan, O. M., J. T. Keane, R. A. Beyer, M. Bird, I. Linscott, S. B. Porter, J. R. Spencer et al., “Thermophysical, Gravitational, and Geomorphology Properties of 2014 MU69”, in Abstracts of...

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Ultima

Ultima

  1. Synonym of Baroque (“chess variant”).
    Synonyms:
    Baroque

ultima meaning in Urdu and Kannada

ultima in Urdu

آخری, بہت دور کا

ultima in Kannada

ಅಂತಿಮ, ಕಟ್ಟಕಡೆಯ, ಕೊನೆಯ

Synonyms of ultima

Forms of ultima

pluralultimas

Plural of ultima: ultimas

Origin of ultima

From the Latin feminine of ultimus (“last”).

Clipping of Ultima Thule. Coined in January 2019 by the NASA team investigators of the New Horizons program (see quotations below).

Words formed from ultima

Phrases with ultima

Questions about ultima

What does ultima mean?
Ultima means the final syllable of a word.
What is ultima in Urdu?
Ultima in Urdu is آخری, بہت دور کا. See Ultima meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is ultima?
Ultima can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce ultima?
Ultima is pronounced /ˈʌltɪmə/.
What is the plural of ultima?
The plural of ultima is ultimas.

Words near ultima in the dictionary

  1. ulteriority
  2. ulteriorly
  3. ulteriorness
  4. ulteriour
  5. ultilisation
  6. ultima
  7. Ultima East
  8. ultima ratio
  9. ultima thule
  10. Ultima Thules
  11. ultimacies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ultima (page history and authors); Ultima (page history and authors); ultima (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ultima (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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