Meaning

5 senses
  1. (uncountable)Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.

    concept of infinity

    The desert stretched out toward the horizon as if into infinity.

    Unendlichkeit

    бесконе́чностьbeskonéčnostʹ, безграни́чностьbezgraníčnostʹ

  2. (countable)A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.

    бесконе́чностьbeskonéčnostʹ

  3. (countable)An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.

  4. (uncountable)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.

    бесконе́чностьbeskonéčnostʹ

  5. (countable, uncountable)The symbol ∞.

    Unendlichkeit

    бесконе́чностьbeskonéčnostʹ

More definitions
  • time without end

Examples

16 sentences
  1. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

    Деякі нескінченності більші, ніж інші нескінченності.

    deManche Unendlichkeiten sind größer als andere Unendlichkeiten.

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  2. Can infinity be an imaginary number?

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  3. I love you infinity to the power of infinity.

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  4. Surrounding the village are fields that stretch into infinity.

    deRings um das Dorf erstrecken sich endlose Felder.

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  5. Tom spent the day lounging by the infinity pool.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit:

Origin

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinité, from Latin īnfīnitās (“unlimitedne

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinité, from Latin īnfīnitās (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + fīnis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tās. By surface analysis, infinite + -ity.

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