Infinity
[ɪn'fɪnɪtɪ] or [ɪn'fɪnəti]
Definition
(n.) Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
(n.) Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
(n.) Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
(n.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
(n.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Infinitude, immensity, vastness.
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Examples
- I let him take them, therefore, from the hiding-place, and so saved myself an infinity of trouble. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- An infinity, the gypsy said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What less than infinity can circums cribe them, less than eternity comprehend them, or less than Omnipotence produce or support th em? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He regarded the universe as an infinity of worlds acted upon by an eternal Agent, and full of beings, tending through their vario us states to a final perfection. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- This phenomenon may be varied to infinity, so to speak. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He looked at his wrist watch and then up to where Primitivo was raising and lowering his rifle in what seemed an infinity of short jerks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No matter, I give you credit for having said an infinity of soft things, and wish it were in my power _de vous rendre les pareilles_. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- From the earliest times man learned to spurn the groveling things of earth, and to delight his soul with the marvelous infinity of the sky and its heavenly bodies. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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