infinity
/ɪnˈfɪnɪti/[ɪnˈfɪnɪɾi]
infinity noun: endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
Noun
infinity (countable and uncountable, plural infinities)
- Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- concept of infinity
- The desert stretched out toward the horizon as if into infinity.
- A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
- Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied...2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2013, page 86
- An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
- A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
- The symbol ∞.
infinity meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
infinity in Hindi
- endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit
- अनंत anant
infinity in Tamil
- endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit
- முடிவிலி muṭivili
- the symbol ∞
- முடிவிலி muṭivili
infinity in Marathi
- endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit
- अनंत ananta
infinity in Urdu
- دوام, منتہیٰ, نامحدودی, وسعت
More languagesFewer languages
- infinity in Bengali
- অসীম ośim
- infinity in Telugu
- అనంతము anantamu
- infinity in Malayalam
- അനന്തത anantata
- infinity in Kannada
- ಅನಂತ ananta
- infinity in Punjabi
- ਅਨੰਤਤਾ
- infinity in Sanskrit
- अदिति aditi
- infinity in Assamese
- অসীম oxim
- infinity in Tagalog
- awanggan
- infinity in Malay
- ketidakterhinggaan, infiniti
- infinity in Indonesian
- tak hingga, ananta, ketakberhinggaan
- infinity in Thai
- อนันต์ à-nan
- infinity in Vietnamese
- vô cực
Examples of infinity in a sentence
- I have never been able to grasp the concept of infinity.
- Smoothness can vary from 0 (for a nondifferentiable function) to infinity (for a smooth function).
- The number of solutions to the Erdős–Straus equation increases polylogarithmically as n tends to infinity.
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Forms of infinity
| plural | infinities |
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Origin of infinity
From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinité, from Latin īnfīnitās (“unlimitedness”), from negative prefix in- (“not”), + fīnis (“end”), + noun of state suffix -tās. By surface analysis, infinite + -ity.
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Questions about infinity
- What does infinity mean?
- Infinity means endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
- What is infinity in Hindi?
- Infinity in Hindi is अनंत (anant). See Infinity meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is infinity?
- Infinity is a noun.
- How do you pronounce infinity?
- Infinity is pronounced /ɪnˈfɪnɪti/.
- What is the plural of infinity?
- The plural of infinity is infinities.
Words near infinity in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: infinity (page history and authors); infinity (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); అనంతము (Telugu) (page history and authors); infinity (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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