Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Infinity
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User Submitted Meanings
- A user from Georgia, U.S. says the name Infinity means "Endless".
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun In*fin"i*ty
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- Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity."There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other." [Sir W. Raleigh.]
- Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
- Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
- [Math] A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.
- [Geom] That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
Note: ☞ Mathematically considered, infinity is always a limit of a variable quantity, resulting from a particular supposition made upon the varying element which enters it.
Etymology: L. infinitas; pref. in- not + finis boundary, limit, end: cf. F. infinité. See Finite
Other Dictionary Sources
- Time without end
Wiktionary
From Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + finis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tas.
- (uncountable) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- (countable, mathematics) A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- (countable, topology, mathematical analysis) An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The symbol ∞.