(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.
Innumerable
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(2) The striking nature of skin angiomas in some patients is illustrated by a mother-daughter pair with innumerable lesions of early onset.
(3) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
(4) The results of the meanwhile innumerous studies were found to be at variance and often controversial.
(5) There are innumerable pitfalls in the intense learning process of residency training that may result in a deficient resident.
(6) Today a visitor to Google Book Search can read on screen or download the full text of Oliver Twist, The Wealth of Nations or innumerable other out-of-copyright titles.
(7) At this time, innumerable oligodendrocytes were observed producing BP simultaneously in the major white fiber tracts.
(8) One hour after blood reinfusion, the mucosal blood flow in the corpus was increased markedly, and innumerable hemorrhagic erosions appeared in this region.
(9) There are innumerable examples around the world where content that is declared illegal under the laws of one country, would be deemed legal in others: Thailand criminalises some speech that is critical of its King, Turkey criminalises some speech that is critical of Ataturk, and Russia outlaws some speech that is deemed to be ‘gay propaganda’.
(10) The resected right lower lobe of the lung contained innumerable lesions varying in size from microscopic to 3.7 cm in diameter, all of which were diagnosed as "sclerosing hemangioma."
(11) The surface of the articular cartilage of 12 months and 20 months old cats was populated by innumerable pits.
(12) Patterns of involvement were classified as (a) innumerable small polyps carpeting large areas, (b) scattered varying-size polyps, and (c) sparse involvement with few small polyps.
(13) On gross examination, the uterus was typically symmetrically enlarged due to almost complete replacement of the myometrium by innumerable, poorly defined, confluent nodules.
(14) There are innumerable practical applications of these combined modalities to the clinical management of patients with pacemakers.
(15) Women make innumerable trivial decisions throughout pregnancy, hundreds of which may affect their unborn.
(16) It contains innumerable small cysts, giving it a honeycombed appearance.
(17) Multiple mucosal and submucosal carcinoids were seen in combination with innumerable hyperplastic and dysplastic growths of argyrophil endocrine cells disseminated in the entire acidopeptic mucosa.
(18) A unilateral rosacea-like chronic dermatitis of the right side of the face was shown to harbor innumerable Demodex folliculorum and D. brevis.
(19) Unperturbed by these and innumerable other illustrations of our fabled “yearning for democracy”, respectable commentary continued to laud President George W Bush for his dedication to “democracy promotion”, or sometimes criticized him for his naivete in thinking that an outside power could impose its democratic yearnings on others.
(20) In psycho-pathology, this paradigm puts in evidence the innumerable interrelations which intervene at all the levels to create disturbances in the functions, inducing troubles of communications with the consciousness resulting in diminution or non-function of the latter, type psychosis, or in its activation, type neurosis.