Infinity: Definition and part of speech

Infinity

  1. n. That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space, which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes meeting at infinity.
  2. n. Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
  3. n. Unlimited capacity, energy, excellence, or knowledge; as, the infinity of God and his perfections.
  4. n. Endless or indefinite number; great multitude; as an infinity of beauties.
  5. n. A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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