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Clinic vs Infinity - What's the difference?

clinic | infinity |

As nouns the difference between clinic and infinity

is that clinic is a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients while infinity is (label) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.

clinic

English

(wikipedia clinic)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients.
  • A group practice of several physicians.
  • A meeting for the diagnosis of problems, or training, on a particular subject.
  • A temporary office arranged on a regular basis to allow politicians to meet their constituents.
  • (wrestling) A series of workouts used to build skills of practitioners regardless of team affiliation.
  • (obsolete) One confined to bed by sickness.
  • (obsolete) One who receives baptism on a sickbed.
  • (Hook)
  • (medicine, obsolete) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * abortion clinic * clinical * clinically * clinician * dental clinic

    infinity

    English

    Noun

  • (label) Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.
  • A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , 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 .
  • Usage notes

    In mathematics there are several different infinities; see transfinite.

    Antonyms

    * finity

    See also

    * eternal * eternity * transfinite