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transfinites

transfinites is the plural of transfinite.

Meaning of transfinite

Noun

transfinite (plural transfinites)

  1. A transfinite number.
    • An interesting and perhaps essential formal model of this quality is to be found in Cantor's concepts of infinite sets and transfinite cardinals. The laws of ordinary, inductive mathematics do not apply to these, for the 'least part' of such transfinites are equal to the whole, and convey their...1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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Questions about transfinites

What is transfinites the plural of?
Transfinites is the plural of transfinite.

Words near transfinites in the dictionary

  1. transfinite induction
  2. transfinite inductions
  3. transfinite number
  4. transfinite numbers
  5. transfinitely
  6. transfinites
  7. transfinity
  8. transfix
  9. transfixable
  10. transfixation
  11. transfixations

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