Infinite

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun An infinite quantity or magnitude.

II. Infinite ·noun The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.

III. Infinite ·noun An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.

IV. Infinite ·adj Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.

V. Infinite ·adj Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.

VI. Infinite ·noun That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.

VII. Infinite ·adj Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind;

— said of certain quantities.

VIII. Infinite ·adj Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God;

— opposed to finite.

IX. Infinite ·adj Capable of endless repetition;

— said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.

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