English Dictionary

penultimate

/pɪˈnʌltɪmət/

adj

(UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc. / (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.

The penultimate episode of the season was full of suspense.

意味（1）

(UK, in US usually formal, literary or scholarly) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.

[…] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]

意味（2）

(linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.

意味（3）

(mathematics, rare) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.

意味（4）

(proscribed) pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality

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