In geometry, an asymptote of a curve is a way of describing its behavior far away from the origin by comparing it to another curve. Specifically, the second curve is an asymptote of the first if distance between the two approaches 0 as the points being considered tend to infinity. Informally, this means that the first curve gets closer to the second as it gets farther from the origin. An important case is when the asymptote is a straight line; this is called a linear asymptote (or simply asympt… (More on Asymptote)