Adjective

(wikipedia certain) (en adjective)

Sure, positive, not doubting.

I was certain of my decision.

(obsolete) Determined; resolved.

* Milton

However, I with thee have fixed my lot, / Certain to undergo like doom.

Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.

* Bible, Dan. ii. 45

The dream is certain , and the interpretation thereof sure.

Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.

Bankruptcy is the certain outcome of your constant gambling and lending.

* Dryden

Virtue that directs our ways / Through certain dangers to uncertain praise.

* Shakespeare

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all.

Unfailing; infallible.

* Mead

I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper.

Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.

* Bible, Ex. xvi. 4

The people go out and gather a certain rate every day.

Not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons.

* Bible, Luke v. 12

It came to pass when he was in a certain city.

* Macaulay

About everything he wrote there was a certain natural grace and decorum.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.

* , I.40:

The number is so infinite , that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) H. Brooke

Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Marlowe

infinite riches in a little room

* (and other bibliographic particulars) Milton

which infinite calamity shall cause to human life

Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.

* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 5

Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite .

With plural noun: infinitely many.

* 2012 , Helen Donelan, ?Karen Kear, ?Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader

Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.

(mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.

(set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.

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For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.

(grammar) Not limited by person or number.

(music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.