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| 1. | Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. |
| 2. | Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections. |
| 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. |