One way to picture it: you walk toward the edge of something and never reach it — there is no far wall, no last item, no final moment. Not simply 'a lot', but 'the end never arrives'.
From the word’s history
From Latin īnfīnītus: in- 'not' + fīnis 'end, boundary'. The word is literally 'not-ended' — the same fīnis that gives finish and final.
拉丁文 īnfīnītus = in-（不）+ fīnis（結束、邊界）+ 形容詞字尾，字面就是「沒有被劃上句點的」。同一個 fīnis 也給了英文 finish 和 final——把 final 前面加個「不」，核心畫面就直接出來了。
Wiktionary: infinite < Middle English/Old French infinit < Latin īnfīnītus, from in- ('not') + fīnis ('end')
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infiniteadj/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
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Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
- The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
- Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
- 2
Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.
- 3
Infinitely many.
- Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
- 4
mathematicssciencesGreater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- 5
mathematicssciencesset-theoryHaving infinitely many elements.
- For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsNot limited by person or number.
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entertainmentlifestylemusicCapable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
infinitenum/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
- 1
Infinitely many.
infinitenoun/ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
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Something that is infinite in nature.
- Sooner Earth / Might go round Heaven, and the strait girth of Time / Inswathe the fulness of Eternity, / Than language grasp the infinite of Love.
- Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.
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video-gamesA combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
- […] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […]
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