【infinite】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源(Etymology)

From Latin infīnītus, from in- (“not”) + fīnis (“end”) + the perfect passive participle ending -itus.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnfɪnɪt/, /ˈɪnfənɪt/

• Audio (US)

• Hyphenation: in‧fi‧nite

形容词(Adjective)

infinite (comparative more infinite, superlative most infinite)

1. Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. [from 14th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes[…], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount[…], OCLC 946730821:

     The number is so infinite, that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.

   • 1735, Henry Brooke, Universal Beauty

     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.

   • c. 1589–1590, Christopher Marlo[we], Tho[mas] Heywood, editor, The Famous Tragedy of the Rich Ievv of Malta.[…], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Nicholas Vavasour,[…], published 1633, OCLC 1121318438, Act 1:
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     infinite riches in a little room

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons],[…], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     which infinite calamity shall cause to human life

2. Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable. [from 15th c.]
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,[…] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker,[…], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 147:5:

     Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.

3. (with plural noun) Infinitely many. [from 15th c.]
   • 2012, Helen Donelan, Karen Kear, Magnus Ramage, Online Communication and Collaboration: A Reader

     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.

4. (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless. [from 17th c.]
5. (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
   • 2009, Brandon C. Look, “Symbolic Logic II, Lecture 2: Set Theory”, in www.uky.edu/~look‎^[1], retrieved 2012-11-20:

     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.

6. (grammar) Not limited by person or number. [from 19th c.]
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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Moore (Encyc. of Music) to this entry?)

用法注意(Usage notes)

Although the term is incomparable in the precise sense, it can be comparable both in mathematics and set theory to compare different degrees of infinity, and informally to denote yet a larger thing.

Poets (and particularly hymn-writers before the 20th century) would commonly rhyme the word as though pronounced [-ɑɪnɑɪt] and church congregations still on occasion adopt that pronunciation.

同义词(Synonyms)

• (indefinably large): immeasurable, inestimable, vast
• (without end or limits): amaranthine, boundless, endless, interminable, limitless, unbounded, unending, unlimited; see also Thesaurus:infinite or Thesaurus:eternal
• (infinitely many): countless; see also Thesaurus:innumerable

反义词(Antonyms)

• finite
• infinitesimal
• limited

下义词(Hyponyms)

• (set theory): countably infinite
• (set theory): uncountable

衍生词(Derived terms)

关联词(Related terms)

• infinitive

翻译(Translations)

数字化(Numeral)

infinite

1. Infinitely many.

名词(Noun)

infinite (plural infinites)

1. Something that is infinite in nature.
   • 2004, Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans, Mathematics and the Divine: A Historical Study (page 449)

     Cautiously, Hobbes avoided asserting the equality of these infinites, and explicitly characterized the relation between them as non-inequality.

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Italian

形容词(Adjective)

infinite

1. feminine plural of infinito

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Latin

形容词(Adjective)

īnfīnīte

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfīnītus

来源参考(References)

• infinite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infinite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infinite in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette