infinite

Etymology

From Middle English infinite, from Old French infinit and Latin infīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -itus. Displaced native Old English unġeendodlīċ.

adj

1. Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
   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. 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty
2. Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
3. (with plural noun) Infinitely many.
   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. 2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader
4. (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
5. (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
   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. 2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, in www.uky.edu/~look, archived from the original on 2018-06-19
6. (grammar) Not limited by person or number.
7. (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.

num

1. Infinitely many.

noun

1. Something that is infinite in nature.
   Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality. 2004, Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans, Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study, page 449
2. (video games) A combo that can be used repeatedly without interruption.
   […] prevents overpowered combos and infinites […] 2007, Adam Deats, Joe Epstein, Virtua Fighter 5, page 14