a. Math. [f. prec. + -IC, after Gr. πτωτικός.] = next.
1671. Phil. Trans., VI. 3065. Asymptotick spaces … comprised between two lines, which being infinitely prolonged do never meet.
1881. Maxwell, Electr. & Magn., I. 167. The equipotential surfaces have each of them an asymptotic plane.
