| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
finite (ˈfaɪnaɪt) ![]() | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent: a finite difference |
| 2. | maths, logic denumerable Compare infinite having a number of elements that is a natural number; able to be counted using the natural numbers less than some natural number |
| 3. | a. limited or restricted in nature: human existence is finite |
| b. (as noun): the finite | |
| 4. | denoting any form or occurrence of a verb inflected for grammatical features such as person, number, and tense |
| [C15: from Latin fīnītus limited, from fīnīre to limit, end] | |
| 'finitely | |
| —adv | |
| 'finiteness | |
| —n | |
finite (fī'nīt') Pronunciation Key
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