What's the difference between finite and finitude?

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.

Finitude


Definition:

  • (n.) Limitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thinking of the end is embedded in a complexity of psychosocial correlates: this is shown to be true for two subgroups of the Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging, who are discriminated by their contrasting manner of facing finitude.
  • (2) A long tradition in philosophy and religion associates the meaning of life with the acknowledgement of its finitude and mortality and with the acceptance of death.
  • (3) Three hypotheses on changes in the time perspective of elderly people and their behavioral consequences are discussed: firstly, Kuhlen's hypothesis of an increasing sensitivity for the passing of time with increasing age, secondly that of a de-differentiation of future time perspective in old age, and finally the thesis that only normative-prescriptive approaches are appropriate in the study of coping with finitude.
  • (4) Instead of the usual interpretation, members are encouraged to confront the paradoxes in their lives, their humanness, and especially their finitude.
  • (5) Christian faith refuses to think in terms of scarcity (God has not created a world in which there is not enough for everyone to survive), but insists on finitude (creation does have inherent limits): there is enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.
  • (6) Can we ignore the finitude of our medical resources?
  • (7) Consciousness of the finitude of human life is found to occur in childhood as well as in age and adulthood, but is turning up more intensively in subjects being terminally ill, and is aroused -- as an irritation to be repressed -- in persons who regularly contact patients confronted by death.
  • (8) Although social scientists have suggested that feelings about life and death may be related, for the most part, theories of social gerontology have developed independently of conceptions of death and finitude.

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