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Meaning of penultimate

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

penultimate

Pronunciation:/pɪˈnʌltɪmət//pɪˈnʌltɪmət/

noun

Definitions

  1. A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:

    Synonyms:penult

adjective

Definitions

  1. (in United States usually formal) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

  2. Of or pertaining to a penult.

  3. Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.