(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.
Interminate
Definition:
(a.) Endless; as, interminate sleep.
(v. t.) To menace; to threaten.
Example Sentences:
(1) And she had a very good point, because Twine is interminable.
(2) Re-examining Sigmund Freud's 'Analysis terminable and interminable' (1937) from the perspective of child analysis highlights the importance of developmental assessment and developmental forces in psychoanalysis.
(3) Those innocuous phrases often mask a world of private pain: tearful interviews, angry confrontations, threats of violence, shocking revelations and interminable waiting, waiting, waiting.
(4) But financial constraints were arduous and interminable, and he declined the invitation to renew his contract.
(5) For one last time, the two candidates came on stage together after weeks of facing off at what often felt like interminable hustings.
(6) ET 10 min: Am I the only person who found Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy interminably dull?
(7) A botched attempt to bully Rosie Webster into testifying at Fiz's interminable trial led to a thrilling car chase, which involved a displaced traffic cone and speeds of up to 30mph.
(8) Oscar planners have sought to shorten the sometimes interminably long show and have tried new ways to present awards in the hope of livening things up.
(9) This, my friends, is what it's really like to be a film journalist: the sweaty people carrier, the surly heavies, the interminable sitting around....
(10) On the one hand an interminable mud-slinging saga featuring at its centre a scarcely credible pair.
(11) But, despite interminable legal proceedings, their efforts have so far come to nothing, partly because studies commissioned by the UK government have concluded that a resettlement programme on what is officially known as the British Indian Ocean Territory was just not feasible.
(12) The debate over regional anesthesia and general anesthesia with respect to relative risk in different classes of patients will probably be interminable until studies addressing the issue begin to specify the treatment protocols more carefully and to control as many variables as possible.
(13) Radiohead's interminable promotion of their patchy debut, Pablo Honey, would have tried anyone's patience.
(14) At first we all thought it was a reaction to the near-fatal road accident of his younger daughter Kate - he and Mari had watched over her as she lay in what seemed an interminable coma.
(15) The updates on the Kickstarter page are a catalogue of little disasters and triumphs: broken moulds, patchy GPS reception, interminable Chinese holidays and, finally, huge stacks of boxes ready to ship.
(16) The question is raised as to whether the analysis of the generation of sound by a laser beam moving over a water surface at the sound speed c for an interminable time period requires consideration of nonlinear effects.
(17) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(18) It certainly seemed that way, and it was gardening, after all, that got him through those seemingly interminable years on Robben Island.
(19) There was no statistically significant difference between the ICD users and nonusers as stratified by SAECG classification regardless of whether or not the interminate studies were included or excluded from the analysis.
(20) Freud pondered the nature of termination as well as incomplete, completed, periodic, and interminable analysis.