 6 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
infinite
adjective
1: having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or
magnitude; "the infinite ingenuity of man"; "infinite
wealth" [ant: {finite}]
2: of verbs; having neither person nor number nor mood (as a
participle or gerund or infinitive); "infinite verb form"
[syn: {non-finite}] [ant: {finite}]
3: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches";
"countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons";
"innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas";
"myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: {countless}, {innumerable},
{innumerous}, {myriad(a)}, {multitudinous}, {numberless},
{uncounted}, {unnumberable}, {unnumbered}, {unnumerable}]
4: total and all-embracing; "God's infinite wisdom"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infinite \In"fi*nite\, adjective [L. infinitus: cf. F. infini. See
{In-} not, and {Finite}.]
1. Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite
duration or distance.
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 can not sink. --H. Brooke.
2. Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or
excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably
great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of
God; -- opposed to {finite}.
Great is our Lord, and of great power; his
understanding is infinite. --Ps. cxlvii.
5.
O God, how infinite thou art! --I. Watts.
3. Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense;
gigantic; prodigious.
Infinite riches in a little room. --Marlowe.
Which infinite calamity shall cause
To human life. --Milton.
4. (Math.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same
kind; -- said of certain quantities.
5. (Mus.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain
forms of the canon, called also {perpetual fugues}, so
constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and
the performance may be incessantly repeated. --Moore
(Encyc. of Music).
Syn: Boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable;
limitless; unlimited; endless; eternal.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Infinite \In"fi*nite\, noun
1. That which is infinite; boundless space or duration;
infinity; boundlessness.
Not till the weight is heaved from off the air, and
the thunders roll down the horizon, will the serene
light of God flow upon us, and the blue infinite
embrace us again. --J.
Martineau.
2. (Math.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
3. An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
Glittering chains, embroidered richly o'er
With infinite of pearls and finest gold. --Fanshawe.
4. The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
220 Moby Thesaurus words for "infinite":
Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean,
Homeric, abysmal, ageless, algorismic, algorithmic, aliquot,
all-comprehensive, all-inclusive, all-knowing, all-powerful,
all-present, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, ample, amplitudinous,
astronomic, astronomical, awesome, bottomless, boundless, broad,
bulky, capacious, cardinal, ceaseless, changeless, coeternal,
colossal, commodious, constant, continual, continuous, cosmic,
countless, creating, creative, dateless, decimal, deep,
differential, digital, elephantine, endless, enormous, epic,
eternal, eternally the same, eterne, even, ever-being,
ever-durable, ever-during, everlasting, everliving, everywhere,
exhaustless, expansive, exponential, extended, extending,
extending everywhere, extensive, far-reaching, figural, figurate,
figurative, finite, fractional, galactic, giant, giantlike,
gigantic, glorious, good, hallowed, heroic, highest, holy, huge,
illimitable, illimited, imaginary, immeasurable, immemorial,
immense, immortal, immutable, impair, impossible, incalculable,
incessant, incomprehensible, indefinite, indestructible,
indeterminable, indeterminate, inestimable, inexhaustible,
infinitely continuous, innumerable, integral, interminable,
interminate, irrational, jumbo, just, king-size, large, limitless,
logarithmic, logometric, loving, luminous, majestic, making,
mammoth, massive, massy, measureless, merciful, mighty, monster,
monstrous, monumental, mountainous, multitudinous, negative,
never-ceasing, never-ending, no end of, nonstop, nonterminating,
nonterminous, numberless, numeral, numerary, numerative, numeric,
numinous, odd, olamic, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one,
ordinal, outsize, overgrown, pair, perdurable, permanent,
perpetual, positive, possible, prime, prodigious, profound,
radiant, radical, rational, real, reciprocal, roomy, sacred,
sempiternal, shaping, shoreless, sizable, sovereign, spacious,
spreading, steady, stupendous, submultiple, sumless, supreme, surd,
termless, timeless, titanic, towering, transcendental, tremendous,
ubiquitous, unbounded, unceasing, unchanging, uncircumscribed,
uncountable, uncounted, undefined, undying, unending, unfathomable,
unintermitting, uninterrupted, universal, unlimited, unmeasurable,
unmeasured, unnumbered, unplumbed, unremitting, untold, vast,
voluminous, weighty, wide, widespread, without bound, without end,
without limit, without measure, without number
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
infinite adjective [common] Consisting of a large number of objects;
extreme. Used very loosely as in: "This program produces infinite
garbage." "He is an infinite loser." The word most likely to follow
'infinite', though, is {hair}. (It has been pointed out that fractals
are an excellent example of infinite hair.) These uses are abuses of the
word's mathematical meaning. The term 'semi-infinite', denoting an
immoderately large amount of some resource, is also heard. "This
compiler is taking a semi-infinite amount of time to optimize my
program." See also {semi}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
infinite
1. Bigger than any {natural number}. There are
various formal set definitions in {set theory}: a set X is
infinite if
(i) There is a bijection between X and a proper subset of X.
(ii) There is an injection from the set N of natural numbers
to X.
(iii) There is an injection from each natural number n to X.
These definitions are not necessarily equivalent unless we
accept the {Axiom of Choice}.
2. The length of a line extended indefinitely.
See also {infinite loop}, {infinite set}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-03-29)
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