About The Word Infinity
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Infinity
Infinity Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Infinity?
[n] time without end
Synonyms | Synonyms for Infinity: eternity | forever Related Terms | Find terms related to Infinity: aesthetic distance | algebraic number | ampleness | amplitude | astronomical number | billion | boundlessness | bulk | cardinal | cardinal number | ceaselessness | clearance | coeternity | compass | complex number | constancy | continualness | continuance | deep space | defective number | depths of space | distance | divergence | durability | endlessness | enormity | enormousness | eternalness | eternity | even number | ever-duringness | everlastingness | everness | everywhereness | expanse | extension | extent | farness | finite number | foreverness | formidableness | fraction | fullness | Gaussian integer | gigantism | glory | googol | googolplex | grandeur | grandness | great scope | greatness | holiness | hugeness | imaginary number | immensity | immutability | impair | incessancy | indestructibility | infinite duration | infinite goodness | infinite justice | infinite love | infinite mercy | infinite power | infinite wisdom | infinitude | integer | intensity | interminability | irrational | irrational number | jillion | large number | largeness | leeway | length | lengthiness | light | light-years | linear measures | long time | longitude | longness | magnitude | majesty | margin | measure | might | mightiness | mileage | mixed number | muchness | never-endingness | omnipotence | omnipotency | omnipresence | omniscience | omnisciency | ordinal | overall length | pair | parsecs | perdurability | perenniality | perennialness | permanence | perpetualness | perpetuity | perspective | piece | plenitude | polygonal number | power | prime number | prodigiousness | pure imaginary | range | rational | rational number | reach | real | real number | rectangular number | remoteness | round number | sempiternity | separation | serial number | sovereignty | space | span | stability | strength | stretch | stride | stupendousness | surd | timelessness | transcendental number | transfinite number | tremendousness | trillion | ubiquity | unceasingness | unity | vastness | way | ways | whole number | yardage | zillion See Also | alpha and omega | time Infinity In Webster's Dictionary \In*fin"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Infinities}. [L. infinitas;
pref. in- not + finis boundary, limit, end: cf. F.
infinit['e]. See {Finite}.]
1. Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity;
boundlessness; immensity. --Sir T. More.
There can not be more infinities than one; for one
of them would limit the other. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as,
the infinity of God and his perfections. --Hooker.
3. Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an
infinity of beauties. --Broome.
4. (Math.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of
the same kind.
Note: Mathematically considered, infinity is always a limit
of a variable quantity, resulting from a particular
supposition made upon the varying element which enters
it. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
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.
{Circle at infinity}, an imaginary circle at infinity,
through which, in geometry of three dimensions, every
sphere is imagined to pass.
{Circular points at infinity}. See under {Circular}.
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