What's the difference between endless and finite?

Endless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; -- applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.
  • (a.) Infinite; excessive; unlimited.
  • (a.) Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
  • (a.) Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a moment’s relief in what is becoming an endless trudge on the road to recovery.
  • (2) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (3) President Obama on Thursday proclaimed to be against endless wars, even as he announced that the US will continue to wage one.
  • (4) Endless utilitarian apartment blocks and gigantic hotels sprawl seemingly at random in the so-called "coastal cluster".
  • (5) For the moment, the priority is managing this endless human tide.
  • (6) Harping on endlessly about a woman’s hair, legs and handbag instead of her ideas and achievements can be horribly belittling, a way of refusing to take her seriously as a professional.
  • (7) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
  • (8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
  • (9) Neil Coyle is MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark Matthew Pennycook: ‘The overwhelming majority respect the leadership result’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Matthew Pennycook Ignore the endless speculation; the Labour party is not about to split.
  • (10) The endless immaturity of the baby-boom generation must surely be coming to a close, as we learn, at last, to grow up.
  • (11) Baghdad and Erbil have an endless list of grievances, ranging from border controls and the integration of the peshmerga to the Iraqi national army, to the delimitation of Kurdistan and the sharing of wealth between the centre and the autonomous region – especially oil.
  • (12) Some plump for Your Love , with its distinctive keyboard figure that subsequently turned up both on Candi Staton and the Source's endlessly reissued and covered 1991 hit You Got The Love and, of all things, psychedelic rock band Animal Collective's My Girls.
  • (13) Earlier this week, the New York representative Richard Hanna became the first Republican elected to Congress to endorse Clinton , writing in an op-ed that he considers Trump “deeply flawed in endless ways”.
  • (14) Wexford's endless war against clichés is hers, she admits.
  • (15) Now the emphasis is all on an endless cycle of marking homework, lesson plans and managing the behaviour of classes.
  • (16) The options for “transitional justice” are endless: South African-style truth and reconciliation, a prosecutorial tribunal, such as that handling former Yugoslavia, or something in between.
  • (17) Even more welcome is the slimming-down of the syllabus in the new draft, after teachers complained about the overloading of the old one with endless facts and dates; far too many to teach in the time available in schools.
  • (18) Development experts, so focused on their endless and crucial work, often neglect this area.
  • (19) She said: "There has been a huge amount of anguish and endless discussion of what more could have been done to save this boy.
  • (20) Papadopoulos said: "This crisis has taught us that we can't go on acting the way we did, living off loans, treating the state as an endless treasury to be raided, never thinking about our future."

Finite


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (2) The method is implemented with a digital non-causal (zero-phase shift) filter, based on the convolution with a finite impulse response, to make the computation time compatible with the use of low-cost microcomputers.
  • (3) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
  • (4) A model for left ventricular diastolic mechanics is formulated that takes into account noneligible wall thickness, incompressibility, finite deformation, nonlinear elastic effects, and the known fiber architecture of the ventricular wall.
  • (5) However, a region containing pixels that are perfectly synchronous on average would still yield a finite distribution of calculated Fourier coefficients due to the propagation of stochastic pixel noise into the calculated values.
  • (6) Linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) filtering can be used to differentiate auditory brainstem evoked potentials (ABEP) components.
  • (7) K5, an OKT8+ clone bearing multiple proviral integration sites, retained its HTLV-I-specific cytotoxicity and a normal dependence on interleukin 2 (IL-2), indicating that there is a finite number of transforming integration sites.
  • (8) Finite diffusivity in tissue and permeability restrictions can have significant effects on the proportion of the volume measured.
  • (9) The finite element algorithm is presented for the determination of heat flow within the partially frozen cornea during cryotherapy.
  • (10) As such, the finite size of the cellular membrane, as well as its precise symmetry, could not be incorporated into the previous studies.
  • (11) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
  • (12) These particular observations illustrate that finite-amplitude distortion may be of considerable significance in the transmission through tissue of ultrasonic pulses during diagnostic scanning.
  • (13) A smooth isolated, axisymmetric occlusion in a straight vascular tube is a tractable problem for pulsatile flow calculations via finite-difference approximations to the Navier-Stokes equation.
  • (14) This paper presents a finite-difference method to calculate SAR in a realistic, heterogeneous model of the leg below the knee.
  • (15) Detailed analysis of microsphere distribution in a cubic centimeter of normal liver and the calculation of dose to a 3-dimensional fine grid has shown that the radiation distribution created by the finite size and distribution of the microspheres results in an highly heterogeneous dose pattern.
  • (16) Low-level finite state (locked-unlocked) control is compared with open-loop stimulation of the knee extensor muscles in functional electrical stimulation (FES) induced paraplegic standing.
  • (17) Thus a large portion of Rp binding to NAP may represent nonspecific binding rather than binding to a finite number of Rp acceptor sites.
  • (18) Biomechanical properties of the six major lumbar spine ligaments were determined from 38 fresh human cadaveric subjects for direct incorporation into mathematical and finite element models.
  • (19) The velocity field of the suspending fluid and the instantaneous velocities of the cylinders are computed by the finite element method.
  • (20) In addition, we studied facial morphology using finite-element scaling analysis and found that the two genera show similarities in morphological integration, or the way in which biological landmarks relate to one another in three dimensions to define the form of the organism.