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infinity
/ˌɪnˈfɪnɪti/
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What does infinity mean?
noun
- Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
- The symbol ∞.
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IPA pronunciation
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To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, with the infinity on high, is called praying.
His fingers showed that the waltzing teetotums had spun over the edge of the counterpane and fallen off the bed into infinity.
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Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the center of the Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction!
After they had asked me an infinity of questions, and felt my hands, face, and clothes, they retired to their own homes.
Imagination loses itself in this sublime Infinity, amid which the projectile was gravitating, like a new star created by the hand of man.