Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Ultimated}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Ultimating}.]
   1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]

   2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]

Ultimate \Ul"ti*mate\, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L.
   ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last,
   superl. from the same source as ulterior. See {Ulterior}, and
   cf. {Ultimatum}.]
   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 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}.

Analysis \A*nal"y*sis\, n.; pl. {Analyses}. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to
   unloose, to dissolve, to resolve into its elements; ? up + ?
   to loose. See {Loose}.]
   1. A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses
      or of the intellect, into its constituent or original
      elements; an examination of the component parts of a
      subject, each separately, as the words which compose a
      sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions
      which enter into an argument. It is opposed to
      {synthesis}.

   2. (Chem.) The separation of a compound substance, by
      chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to
      ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how
      much of each element is present. The former is called
      {qualitative}, and the latter {quantitative analysis}.

   3. (Logic) The tracing of things to their source, and the
      resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

   4. (Math.) The resolving of problems by reducing the
      conditions that are in them to equations.

   5.
      (a) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a
          discourse, disposed in their natural order.
      (b) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of
          a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with
          synopsis.

   6. (Nat. Hist.) The process of ascertaining the name of a
      species, or its place in a system of classification, by
      means of an analytical table or key.

   {Ultimate}, {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, {Quantitative}, and
   {Volumetric analysis}. (Chem.) See under {Ultimate},
      {Proximate}, {Qualitative}, etc.

Source : WordNet®

ultimate
     adj 1: furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme;
            "the ultimate achievement"; "the ultimate question";
            "man's ultimate destiny"; "the ultimate insult";
            "one's ultimate goal in life" [ant: {proximate}]
     2: being the last or concluding element of a series; "the
        ultimate sonata of that opus"; "a distinction between the
        verb and noun senses of `conflict' is that in the verb the
        stress is on the ultimate (or last) syllable"
     3: being the ultimate or elemental constituents of anything;
        "the elemental stuff of...out of which the many forms of
        life have been molded"- Jack London; "the ultimate
        ingredients of matter"; "his proposal is elegantly simple"
        [syn: {elemental}]