Noun

(en noun)

(lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.

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*1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill

*:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.

(lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.

A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.

A private room on a ship.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}

The passenger area of an airplane.

The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.

A signal box.

A small room; an enclosed place.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.

Noun

(label) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.

A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.

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, author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=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 far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}

An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.

(label) 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.

(label) The symbol .