infinity
infinity Lexical Profile
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• noun
The state or quality of being infinite; boundless space, time, or quantity.
"She stared up at the night sky, contemplating the vast infinity of the universe."
In mathematics, a number or quantity greater than any assignable value or countable number, represented by the symbol ∞.
"In calculus, the students calculated the limit of the function as the variable approaches infinity."
An extremely large, seemingly uncountable number or amount of something.
"A chess game offers a near infinity of possible moves after just the first few turns."
In optics and photography, a distance so great that light rays coming from a source at that distance can be regarded as parallel.
"Before photographing the distant mountain range, he adjusted the camera lens focus to infinity."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French infinité, from Latin infinitas ('boundlessness, endlessness'), derived from in- ('not') and finis ('boundary, limit, end').