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infinite | exceeding |

As nouns the difference between infinite and exceeding

is that infinite is infinity, endlessness while exceeding is (archaic) the situation of being in excess.

As a verb exceeding is

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As an adjective exceeding is

(archaic) prodigious.

As an adverb exceeding is

(archaic) exceedingly.

infinite

English

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.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2009 , author = Brandon C. Look , title = Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory , site = www.uky.edu/~look , url = http://www.uky.edu/~look/Phi520-Lecture7.pdf , accessdate = 2012-11-20 }}
    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.

    • Usage notes

    Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity, and informally to denote yet a larger thing.

    Synonyms

    * amaranthine * boundless * countless * endless * immeasurable * inestimable * interminable * limitless * unbounded * unlimited * vast

    Antonyms

    * finite * infinitesimal * limited

    Hyponyms

    * (set theory) countably infinite * (set theory) uncountable

    Derived terms

    * infinitely * infinitesimal * infinitude * infinity

    Related terms

    * infinitive

    Numeral

    (head)
  • Infinitely many.
    • ----

    exceeding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) prodigious
  • (archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
  • (archaic) extreme

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) Exceedingly.
  • *, II.7:
    • Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar , note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert.
  • * 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:

    • Usage notes

    * The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) The situation of being in excess.
  • * 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
    • I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money

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