infinity
- noun
- /ɪnˈfɪnɪti/
- Time seemed to stretch into infinity as we waited for the event to begin.
- infinity symbol
- negative infinity
- positive infinity
Could we go back endlessly to Infinity, as we say?
- Could we go back endlessly to Infinity, as we say?
- It's tending towards Infinity, but it hasn't reached it yet.
- The belt and wheel speed would ramp up, approaching Infinity and beyond.
- It means that some maths thing returns the value Infinity.
- Do you think you're really grasping the seriousness of Infinity?
- This is just going out to Infinity in flat pieces.
- It feels like Infinity is the way this whole thing runs.
- So your top topic is QE to Infinity.
Examples
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As we gazed at the stars, we couldn't help but ponder the concept of infinity in the universe.
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OK, so Y goes from minus Infinity to Infinity.
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So the range is from negative Infinity to Infinity.
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This is just going out to Infinity in flat pieces.
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So zero and Infinity are the same and it's all one.
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A power hidden in the infinity of space.
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At least I have now understood infinity, if not the other thing.
Fiction book (1992) -
History is the record of human freedom from the infinity or givenness of nature.
Academic text (1996) -
The blue sky, the desert earth, stretching out into the eerie infinity.
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Wide-open prairie, rolling on the infinity of the horizon, stretched far beyond the city, beyond the banks.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
Time that never ends, often imagined after death
A very long time with no end
A state of having no end or limit
A state of having no limit or end
A state with no end or edge
A state of lasting forever
A state of seeming to last or really lasting without an end
Lasting forever without a beginning or end
The state of having no limits or end
The quality of having no limits in space, time, or size
A state of having no limits or end
An endless, boundless origin of everything in ancient Greek thinking
An old word for a time that never ends
Antonyms
How Unlimited
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Infinity comes from Latin parts in- 'not' and finis 'end', the same root as finish. So infinity means 'no end', something that continues without limit.