Dough vs Infinity - What's the difference?
dough | infinity |
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
(slang) Money.
(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
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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 .
As nouns the difference between dough and infinity
is that dough is a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked while infinity is (label) endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of end or limit.As a verb dough
is to make into dough.dough
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Alternative forms
* (dialectal)Noun
(en-noun)- Pizza dough is very stretchy.
- His mortgage payments left him short on dough .
Derived terms
* doughboy * doughnut * doughy * rolling in doughDerived terms
*infinity
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Noun
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