Infinite vs Unnumbered - What's the difference?
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Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
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Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
* Bible, Psalms cxlvii. 5
With plural noun: infinitely many.
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(mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
(set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
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(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.
Infinitely many.
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Not identified with a number
Too numerous to be counted; countless or innumerable
Infinite is a related term of unnumbered.
As a noun infinite
is infinity, endlessness.As an adjective unnumbered is
not identified with a number.infinite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The number is so infinite , that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
- 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.
- infinite riches in a little room
- which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
- Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite .
- 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.
- 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.