infinite
IPA: ˈɪnfʌnʌt
noun
- Something that is infinite in nature.
- (video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
adjective
- Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
- (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
- (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
- (music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
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Examples of "infinite" in Sentences
- There must then be obedience to an infinite law, or _infinite_ punishment for transgression.
- ˜infinite™ is used categorematically, for in that case its signification is “Things that are infinite are finite.”
- That's the kind of, oh, let's call it infinite diversity in infinite combination, that I've always loved about our genre.
- ˜infinite™ and then indicating the different senses it can have depending on where it occurs in a proposition, he treats the infinite itself as a term.
- Although _Philosophers_ say, _No Number is infinite, because it can be numbred_; for _infinite_ is a quantity that cannot be taken or assigned, but there is (_infinitum quoad hos_) as they term it, that is _infinite_ in respect of our apprehension:
- But Pentagon say and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said that may get a reworking because some Muslim groups have said that the term infinite justice could be offensive to Muslims because in their religion, only Allah can dispense ultimate or infinite justice -- Wolf.
- Without such an ultimate and immediate signification instantiated in the formal signification of the mental concept, there would be, as John Raulin remarks, an infinite regress (processus in infinitum) in any signification, something like a Peircean ˜infinite semeiosis™. [
- The fact that, by the law of the series or of the process, _we_ may continue the operation _as long as we please_, does not justify the application of the term infinite to the operation itself; if any thing is infinite, it is the will which continues the operation, which is absurd if said of human wills.
- When he explains that it is infinite and omnipresent, like poor Paddy's famed ale, the explanation 'thickens as it clears;' for being ourselves _finite_, and necessarily present on one small spot of our very small planet, the words _infinite_ and _omnipresent_ do not suggest to us either positive or practical ideas -- of course, therefore, we have neither positive nor practical ideas of an infinite and omnipresent Being.
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