indefinite number

noun

, Mathematics.

Sometimes one egg-shell only is employed, sometimes two—a dozen—or an indefinite number.

The chance represented by unity compared with the indefinite number of entomological species.

It may have an indefinite number of qualities according to the precise position of the upper organs of speech.

Such a battery can be charged and discharged an indefinite number of times.

We may now proceed to divisibility; that is to say, a susceptibility of being divided into an indefinite number of parts.

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