What's the difference between eternity and infinite?

Eternity


Definition:

  • (n.) Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
  • (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Will the United fans' eternal favourite soon add his voice to that of 140,000 fans?
  • (2) The lucky thing is, says Susan Calman , that although she is "an eternal worrier, occasionally I do something stupid."
  • (3) In legend, Gilgamesh fell asleep on the water side and let slip from his fingers the plant of eternal youth.
  • (4) To butcher TS Eliot: I have seen the mercury of my thermometer flicker, And I have seen the eternal footman hold my sheets drenched in sweat at 3am, and snicker, And in short, I was too hot.
  • (5) Dayton Flyers once again pull off the round's first upset The final minute of game time seemed to take a small eternity in real time, with the in-game action interrupted by four team timeouts and eight free throw attempts.
  • (6) Greed is not only good, it is a fundamental prop to the fantasy of eternal growth.
  • (7) In each of his creative capacities, he was the eternal quiet man.
  • (8) Even Alec – eternally hard to please where his own work was concerned – loved it.
  • (9) 9.06am BST There are some eternal verities in politics and one of them is that British governments (especially Conservative-led ones) are always fighting a war on red tape.
  • (10) Boris Johnson accused of 'dishonest gymnastics' over TTIP U-turn Read more “But fundamentally, what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe .
  • (11) They call it, rather unsurprisingly, the eternal flame.
  • (12) They were created on the basis that, whatever the cost, there are some eternal values that are worth upholding in a civilised society.
  • (13) He has taken the legacy of postwar abstract expressionism, and allied to that a deep love of the great eternal themes of the classical world.
  • (14) Murray said: "I'm eternally grateful to Ivan for all his hard work over the past two years, the most successful of my career so far.
  • (15) I am not sure that a lucrative career in rape gags is more helpful than a failed one, but the rape hum seems eternal.
  • (16) Ras proteins are membrane-associated transducers of eternal stimuli to unknown intracellular targets.
  • (17) One, Baroness O'Cathain, has said, in relation to politics and her evangelism: "For me it is a guarantee of eternal peace."
  • (18) Committed to eliminating the budget deficit by the end of next year, it just does not have the cash to fund, for example, big new infrastructure projects like an eternally proposed (and eternally postponed) bridge over the Straits of Messina.
  • (19) François Bayrou must have resigned himself to being the eternal also-ran of French presidential elections, by now.
  • (20) To all those who offered me their friendship, support and prayers, I will be eternally grateful.

Infinite


Definition:

  • (a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
  • (a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.
  • (n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
  • (n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
  • (n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (2) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
  • (3) The culture pattern presented by the primary cultures did not appreciably change after passaging in vitro for periods of up to 2 years, even after infinite cell lines were established.
  • (4) At infinite dilution both steroids are well resolved, the trans isomer being eluted before the cis isomer.
  • (5) However, the maximal lysis of target cells at an infinite number of effectors was significantly less for normal compared with leukaemic targets.
  • (6) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
  • (7) In this (proliferative) model small doses of weakly antigenic tumors grow infinitely large (i.e.
  • (8) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
  • (9) We have found that the frequency of the allele which favours recombination increases in finite populations, and decreases slightly in infinite populations.
  • (10) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
  • (11) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
  • (12) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
  • (13) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (14) The Macdonald-Dietz model for superinfection in malaria is a time-dependent infinite-server queue.
  • (15) The deterministic model (assuming infinite population size and random mating) predictions of the final gene frequency were exceeded only if there was reproductive compensation.
  • (16) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
  • (17) Using fundamental concepts of hydrodynamics in porous media, we have rederived the Lumpkin-DèJardin-Zimm (LDZ) model for the gel electrophoresis of reptating, infinitely long, worm-like chains, such as DNA.
  • (18) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
  • (19) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
  • (20) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.