infinit
infinit is the obsolete spelling of infinite.
Meaning of infinite
Adjective
infinite (comparative more infinite, superlative most infinite)
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- immeasurable, inestimable, vast
- Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
- Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 147:5
- Synonyms:
- amaranthine, boundless, endless, interminable, limitless, unbounded, unending, unlimited, ageful, agelong
- 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.2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader
- Synonyms:
- countless, innumerable, numberless, uncountable, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, untold
- Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
- Having 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.2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, in www.uky.edu/~look, archived from the original on 19 Jun 2018
- Not limited by person or number.
Forms of infinit
| comparative | more infinit |
|---|---|
| superlative | most infinit |
Questions about infinit
- What is infinit the obsolete spelling of?
- Infinit is the obsolete spelling of infinite.
Words near infinit in the dictionary
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