| a. | 1. | |
| 1. | Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; | |
| 2. | Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; | |
| 3. | Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious. | |
| 4. | (Math.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; - said of certain quantities. | |
| 5. | (Mus.) Capable of endless repetition; - said of certain forms of the canon, called also | |
| n. | 1. | That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness. |
| 2. | (Math.) An infinite quantity or magnitude. | |
| 3. | An infinity; an incalculable or very great number. | |
| 4. | The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty. |
| Adj. | 1. | infinite - having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite wealth" Antonyms: finite - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent |
| 2. | infinite - of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a participle or gerund or infinitive); "infinite verb form" Synonyms: non-finite Antonyms: finite - of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person | |
| 3. | infinite - too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" Synonyms: countless, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable | |
| 4. | infinite - total and all-embracing; "God's infinite wisdom" |
| (mathematics) | infinite - 1. Bigger than any natural number. There are
various formal set definitions in set theory: a set X is
infinite if (i) There is a bijection between X and a proper subset of X. (ii) There is an injection from the set N of natural numbers to X. (iii) There is an injection from each natural number n to X. These definitions are not necessarily equivalent unless we accept the Axiom of Choice. 2. The length of a line extended indefinitely. See also infinite loop, infinite set. |
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