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单词 infinite
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infinite
(ɪnfɪnɪt )
1. adjective
If you describe something as infinite, you are emphasizing that it is extremely great in amount or degree. [emphasis]
...an infinite variety of landscapes.
With infinite care, John shifted position.
The choice is infinite.
Synonyms: vast, enormous, immense, wide  
infinitely adverb [ADVERB adjective/adverb]
His design was infinitely better than anything I could have done.
2. adjective
Something that is infinite has no limit, end, or edge.
...an infinite number of atoms.
Obviously, no company has infinite resources.
...God's infinite mercy.
Synonyms: limitless, endless, unlimited, eternal  
infinitely adverb [ADVERB with verb]
A centimeter can be infinitely divided into smaller units.
The infinite is something which is infinite.
...pondering on the infinite.
Quotations:
What you see, yet cannot see over, is as good as infiniteThomas CarlyleSartor Resartus
Collocations:
infinite amount
The infinite amount of production possibilities left my jaw agape.
Times, Sunday Times
The resulting equations imply that to reach it would require an infinite amount of energy.
Times, Sunday Times
We had an infinite amount of time to make the record — that's just how long it took.
The Sun
I guess the reason was that, without an infinite amount of music available, it made sense to inhabit one particular area.
Times, Sunday Times
He added that the coalition did not have an infinite amount of time.
Times, Sunday Times
infinite loop
And if it jumps outward to the groove it just finished playing, it can repeat in an infinite loop.
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The newly recorded introduction and conclusion dovetailed into each other, so that the album formed an infinite loop if the listener kept changing sides.
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An infinite loop could be used to fill the display with the message.
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Operators and others could listen for an infinite loop or particular program.
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The bug caused this method to enter an infinite loop when called on a specific input.
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infinite patience
He rehearsed them with infinite patience but tensions were high before the concert.
Times, Sunday Times
You are able to shrug off criticism and have infinite patience.
The Sun
She was a perfectionist and needed infinite patience to reach her goal.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was itself just waiting, with a heron's infinite patience, for a fish to appear.
Times, Sunday Times
Unlike the average student, it has infinite patience, can think in ten dimensions and works for 21.5 hours a day, pausing only to recharge its battery.
Times,Sunday Times
infinite potential
Module, still only six and a horse of infinite potential, might just be ready to take on that mantle.
Times, Sunday Times
But we are falling out of love with our phones and their infinite potential for distraction.
Times, Sunday Times
The search for an irony sign became urgent with the internet, and its infinite potential for misunderstanding.
Times, Sunday Times
Blurb-babble, a series with infinite potential.
The Times Literary Supplement
infinite power
People like the juxtaposition of infinite power and infinite humanity.
Times, Sunday Times
Possessing it would grant infinite power to its holder.
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The term was used to suggest that the expansion of federal powers under these arguments would give the federal government infinite powers.
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infinite range
Most people seem to be in denial about this and think that their tax covers an infinite range of services.
Times, Sunday Times
All societies have language in immense grammatical complexity, providing an infinite range of expressiveness.
Times, Sunday Times
We may not be able to ascertain what's normal; but, given the idiosyncratic nature of congregations and the infinite range of responses, we can tell you, at least, what's average.
Christianity Today
Humans manage to combine sounds that are in themselves meaningless in regular ways, which we call grammar, to convey an infinite range of meanings.
Times, Sunday Times
Other species may bark, miaow, moo or squawk but humans can put sounds together to form words, clauses and sentences to convey an infinite range of meaning.
Times, Sunday Times
infinite resources
You have infinite resources to make whatever you please, even a shining glass palace on a mountain-top.
Times, Sunday Times
A stellar team with seemingly infinite resources and yet again they fold when it matters.
Times, Sunday Times
The authorities seem to find infinite resources to give these monsters new identities and housing to protect them.
The Sun
The assumption of infinite resources can produce other apparent paradoxes in economics.
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infinite set of
These are precisely the relations obeyed by the ladder operators for an infinite set of independent quantum harmonic oscillators, one for each single-particle state.
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Many theories of interest include an infinite set of axioms, however.
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However, the product of an infinite set of metric spaces may not exist, because the distances in the base spaces may not have a supremum.
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Discrete random variables can take on either a finite or at most a countably infinite set of discrete values (for example, the integers).
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A context free grammar that defines the rules for a second grammar can yield an effectively infinite set of rules for the derived grammar.
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infinite space
Like the compass needle, it is constantly directed to a single point in infinite space.
Thompkins, Peter, Bird, Christopher Secrets of the Soil (1990)
We are all'an infinite space.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
infinite variations
For all the infinite variations of reproductive mutation, nature has yet to produce the perfect human being.
Times, Sunday Times
Besides, the infinite variations are more interesting and expressive than plain old 100 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
It was here that the owner drew up a charter defining the ingredients of a 'real' bouillabaisse — although, somewhat confusingly, his charter allows for almost infinite variations.
Times, Sunday Times
Few writers are as good at investigating the messy realities of love: its twisting indirections and frayed edges; the infinite variations in what people want, or think they want.
Times, Sunday Times
And the moving parts that make up a 'walk' - virtually every joint in the body - permit, like a fingerprint, almost infinite variations on the same theme.
Times, Sunday Times
infinite variety
I have lived in my head, using an infinite variety of ploys to keep my life on the known track.
Christianity Today
But the moment passed, and now the river bubbles happily with infinite variety.
Times, Sunday Times
With the digital revolution, there will be an almost infinite variety of ways for film-makers to connect with an audience.
Times, Sunday Times
The 11 short stories also collected here show a writer of infinite variety, and the bulk of them will enhance his reputation.
Times, Sunday Times
Very likely, the game, in its infinite variety, will continue to be enjoyed far and wide, as each generation takes stewardship from the last.
Times,Sunday Times
infinite wisdom
And what, in their infinite wisdom, are they thinking?
Times, Sunday Times
After all this, the stewards - in their infinite wisdom - then decided to switch the fourth and fifth horses around.
The Sun
There's an easy government solution to be found for all ills if only political leaders had access to the infinite wisdom possessed by the media.
Times, Sunday Times
This remarkable organ in our heads holds infinite wisdom but so few of us know how to use it.
Times, Sunday Times
Bless us with peace of mind and infinite wisdom, show us the way of righteousness so our soul be cleansed.
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seemingly infinite
The graphics are better, and the choice of cars and weaponry seemingly infinite.
Times, Sunday Times
He witnessed civilians being rounded up and saw 'the seemingly infinite human capacity for cruelty'.
Times, Sunday Times
The seemingly infinite credit in the bank was running low.
Times, Sunday Times
The nature of her victory and the realisation that this filly has seemingly infinite ability, plus my winnings of course, reduced me to tears.
The Sun
Years are big hefty things; days are disposable, lightweight, seemingly infinite.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 极大的
Japanese: 無数の
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