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[in-fin-i-tee]

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noun, plural -ties.

the quality or state of being infinite.

something that is infinite.

infinite space, time, or quantity.

an infinite extent, amount, or number.

an indefinitely great amount or number.

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Mathematics.

the assumed limit of a sequence, series, etc., that increases without bound.

infinite distance or an infinitely distant part of space.

Photography.

a distance between a subject and the camera so great that rays of light reflected from the subject may be regarded as parallel.

a distance setting of the camera lens beyond which everything is in focus.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English infinite < Latin infīnitās, equivalent to in- in-³ + fīni(s) boundary (see finish) + -tās -ty²

Can be confused: affinity, infinity.

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Infinity is always a great word to know.

So is negative. Does it mean:

a system of numerical notation to the base 2, in which each place of a number, expressed as 0 or 1, corresponds to a power of 2

a minus sign; a quantity less than zero

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Example Sentences

Beyond the infinity pool at this house are views of dunes and the ocean.

For a brief but incandescent moment, a blip in the infinity of time, the room is perfection itself.

They're small, but when computing an average, only a little infinity is needed to take the average all the way.

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Beyond the infinity pool at this house are views of dunes and the ocean.

For a brief but incandescent moment, a blip in the infinity of time, the room is perfection itself.

They're small, but when computing an average, only a little infinity is needed to take the average all the way.

Gated communities with shotgun-slung guards and personal infinity pools.

Infinity has no beginning or end, no middle or edge.

He also added the earliest concepts of relativity and the concept of infinity.

It's basically the only way you can make the equations consistent and avoid infinity.

Beginning with why numbers are helpful and finishing with the mysteries of infinity.

Clearly the momentum effect cannot last for ever or share prices would head for infinity.

To understand the immensity of scale and the infinity of time helps us find footing in the slippery chaos of the world.

The idea of infinity having various sizes sound ridicules.

The soft greys lulling me into the receding debths pulling into the infinity.

We lean our heads back to find that the surrounding hills form an immense aperture to infinity.

But it could be finite, merely giving the illusion of infinity.

Soon wheat covered enormous rich plains to infinity.

In the positive infinity time does not exist and all your questions would be answered and all your needs met.

We do not and never will due to the infinity and infinitesimal nature of the universe.

However, the idea of everything being in an infinity deep gravity well sounds undesirable.

While collectively they must conserve linear and angular momentum, that can be satisfied by an infinity of different states.

Infinity is not a number, it is a describable but an undefinable concept.

We must allow for levels of infinity beyond those contemplated by set theorists.

And in infinity there is contained an infinite variety of particles.

When a certain operation is applied repeatedly to the numbers, the ones outside the set flee to infinity.

For infinity doesn't exist: even the entire universe has a finite amount of energy.

And the mandelbrot cannot come into existence without infinity.

Infinity surrounds us each with heaven and hell in mixed proportions.

Only no one value can reach all of these except infinity or a variable variant.

If you were counting on infinity being absolute, your number's up.

Focus will still be manual, although infinity focus is maintained.

The relentless geometry of the farm fields still vanishes into infinity.

Twenty feet is taken because, as far as the eye is concerned, it is effectively infinity.

Infinity is asking the court for unspecified damages and to relieve it of its obligations under the joint venture agreement.

We're not exactly talking swimming in an infinity pool as opposed to a drainage ditch here, people.

One of the infinity spaces contains a series of small pellets of colored plastic wedged between the mirrors.

Something other than infinity existing in infinity has changed the dynamics of infinity.

Many of the towns set in this infinity of flat have a listless.

Like a stargazer, he has contemplated an infinity of faces, discovering and recording in no less than.

Instead of living in a bachelor's pad with women in skimpy bikinis lining the infinity pool, he lives with his parents.

Highways all roll straight to the point of infinity on a far horizon.

When a certain operation is applied re peatedly to the numbers, the ones out side the set flee to infinity.

The end effect is the continuation of the human mind to the lengths of infinity or whatever becomes the current social quo.

Therefore when it reaches infinity it will have a net red shift.

More over, it is amongst the wildest infinity problems known to theoretical physics.

Some of them, forming closed loops or simply extending from minus infinity to infinity, will correspond to electromagnetic waves.

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World English Dictionary

infinity (ɪnˈfɪnɪtɪ)

—n , pl -ties
1.	the state or quality of being infinite
2.	endless time, space, or quantity
3.	an infinitely or indefinitely great number or amount
4.	optics, photog a point that is far enough away from a lens, mirror, etc, for the light emitted by it to fall in parallel rays on the surface of the lens, etc
5.	physics a dimension or quantity of sufficient size to be unaffected by finite variations
6.	maths the concept of a value greater than any finite numerical value
7.	a distant ideal point at which two parallel lines are assumed to meet

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Word Origin & History

infinity

late 14c., from O.Fr. infinité, from L. infinitatem (nom. infinitas) "boundlessness," from infinitus boundless, unlimited" (see infinite). Infinitas used as a loan-translation of Gk. apeiria "infinity," from apeiros "endless."

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Science Dictionary

infinity

(ĭn-fĭn'ĭ-tē) Pronunciation Key
A space, extent of time, or quantity that has no limit.

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Computing Dictionary

infinity definition

1. The size of something infinite.
Using the word in the context of sets is sloppy, since different infinite sets aren't necessarily the same size cardinality as each other.
See also aleph 0
2. The largest value that can be represented in a particular type of variable (register, memory location, data type, whatever).
See also minus infinity.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-18)

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