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| 1. | Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. | |||||||
| 2. | Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; | |||||||
| 3. | Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties. | |||||||
| 4. | (Math.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind. | |||||||
| 5. | (Geom.) 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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| Noun | 1. | infinity - time without end Synonyms: eternity |
| 1. | (mathematics) | infinity - The size of something infinite. Using the word in the context of sets is sloppy, since different infinite sets aren't necessarily the same size cardinality as each other. See also aleph 0 | |
| 2. | (programming) | infinity - The largest value that can be represented in
a particular type of variable (register, memory location,
data type, whatever). See also minus infinity. |
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