infinity

Etymology
From, from , from , from negative prefix , + , + noun of state suffix.

Noun

 * 1)  endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.
 * 2)  A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.
 * 3)  An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.
 * 4)  A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.
 * 5)  The symbol ∞.
 * 1)  The symbol ∞.

Usage notes
In mathematics there are several different infinities; see transfinite.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:infinity

Translations

 * Afrikaans: oneindigheid
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: অসীম
 * Basque: infinitu
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: infinitat
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: nekonečno
 * Danish: uendelighed
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: lõpmatus
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: უსასრულობა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ilocano: awan inggana
 * Indonesian: tak hingga,
 * Irish: éigríoch
 * Japanese:
 * Kannada:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: infīnitās
 * Latvian: bezgalība
 * Lithuanian: begalybė
 * Malagasy: tsiefa
 * Malay: ketidakterhinggaan, infiniti
 * Malayalam:
 * Manx: neuyerinaght
 * Marathi: अनंत
 * Mongolian:
 * Northern Sami: agálašvuohta
 * Old English: unġeendodlīcnes
 * Polish:, bezbrzeże
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: бесконачност, бескрајност
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: awanggan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: anfeidredd


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: infinitat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: éigríoch
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay: ketidakterhinggaan, infiniti
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: awanggan
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, (de mare)
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Malay: ketidakterhinggaan, infiniti
 * Polish:, symbol nieskończoności, lemniskata
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: oändlighetstecken
 * Tagalog: awanggan
 * Turkish:


 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Telugu: