ultralow

adjective

ul·​tra·​low ˌəl-trə-ˈlō How to pronounce ultralow (audio)
: extremely or extraordinarily low
ultralow interest rates
vehicles with ultralow emissions
Communicating with subs thousands of miles away, under thousands of feet of ocean, requires ultralow frequencies.Noah Shachtman

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That prompted the Bank of Japan on Friday to raise interest rates by a quarter point, to 0.5 percent, another step in its pivot away from the ultralow rates officials long used to try to jolt the economy back to life. River Akira Davis, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 Ultimately, the new techniques and technologies that bring us to these ultralow latencies will be driven by what people want to use them for. IEEE Spectrum, 20 Oct. 2020 What made this particular anechoic chamber test interesting is that it was also conducted at ultralow temperatures. IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2021 Unemployment recently jumped to its highest level since October 2021, after more than two years of the jobless rate hovering under an ultralow 4% rate. Bryan Mena, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for ultralow

Word History

First Known Use

1849, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of ultralow was in 1849

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“Ultralow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ultralow. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

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