infinite
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Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
adjetivo
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Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
infinite riches in a little room
which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
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Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.
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Infinitely many.
Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
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Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
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Having infinitely many elements.
For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.
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Not limited by person or number.
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Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Etimología
From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and its etymon Latin īnfīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -ītus. By surface analysis, in- + finite. Doublet of infinito. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.
numeral
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Infinitely many.
sustantivo
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Something that is infinite in nature.
Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.
Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.
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A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
[…] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]
Formas
- plural
- infinites
- comparativo
- more infinite
- superlativo
- most infinite
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