infinity

[in·fin·i·ty]

Infinity is forever. You might hope that your relationship with your high school boyfriend will last into infinity, but, realistically, you know that's not likely to happen.

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Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.

Noun
time without end


n.
Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.

n.
Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.

n.
Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.

n.
A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.

n.
That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.


Infinity

In*fin"i*ty , n.; pl. Infinities . [L. infinitas; pref. in- not + finis boundary, limit, end: cf. F. infinit'82. See Finite.] 1. Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity. Sir T. More.
There can not be more infinities than one; for one of them would limit the other.
2. Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections. Hooker. 3. Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties. Broome. 4. (Math.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind. &hand; Mathematically considered, infinity is always a limit of a variable quantity, resulting from a particular supposition made upon the varying element which enters it. Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ). 5. (Geom.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity. Circle at infinity, an imaginary circle at infinity, through which, in geometry of three dimensions, every sphere is imagined to pass. -- Circular points at infinity. See under Circular.

Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.

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Usage Examples

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

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Other Usage Examples

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

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