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What does penultimate mean?

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Adjective
  1. (literary) Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
  2. (linguistics) Of or pertaining to a penult.
  3. (mathematics) Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
Noun
  1. (uncommon) A penult, a next-to-last thing, particularly:
    1. (obsolete, rare) The penultimate day of a month.
    2. (linguistics) The penultimate syllable of a word or metrical line.
    3. (mathematics) The penultimate element of a collection of curves.
    4. (card game) The penultimate (next to lowest) card in a suit.
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