Ul·ti·mate a.
 1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
    My harbor, and my ultimate repose.   --Milton.
    Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.   --Addison.
 2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
    Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.   --Coleridge.
 3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
 Ultimate analysis Chem., organic analysis. See under Organic.
 Ultimate belief. See under Belief.
 Ultimate ratio Math., the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.
 Syn: -- Final; conclusive. See Final.