Meaning of infinite | Babel Free
ˈɪnfᵻnɪtDefinitions
- Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- unlimited, boundless, unbounded
- endless, countless
- Infinitely many.
- immeasurable
- Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- immensely; hugely; infinitely; big-time
- Having infinitely many elements.
- Not limited by person or number.
- Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Examples
“The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.”
“Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.”
“infinite riches in a little room”
“which infinite calamity shall cause to human life”
“Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.”
“Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.”
“For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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