Ultimate

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The ultimate is the last and final item in a series. The related words penultimate and antepenultimate refer to the second-to-last and the third-to-last item in a series, respectively.

Ultimate may refer to:

• Ultimate (sport), a team disc sport.
• Ultimace, a disc-based sport, played on a standard tennis court.
• Ultimate Marvel, an imprint of comic books which reimagines and updates various characters.
• The Ultimate, the trancendental reality of which the "relative" world is but a reflection of in some systems of metaphysics and religions.
• Ultimate (Boney M. album), the title of Boney M's 1999 compilation album.
• Ultimate (Prince album), the title of Prince's 2006 compilation album.
• Ultimate (Bobby Vinton album), the title of Bobby Vinton's 1995 compilation album.
• Ultimate Play The Game, the former name used by Rare, a video game developer.
• The ultimate cause of an event; this is in contrast to the proximate causation of an event, the naive later steps flowing from the root cause.
  • In biology, the evolutionary causes for a biological phenomenon, as opposed to the proximate (biology) causes.
• The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny, a song by Lemon Demon.
• Windows Vista Ultimate

[edit] See also

• Penult and antepenult, the second to last and third to last syllable of a word in linguistics.

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