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 In·fi·nite a.
 1. Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
    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 can not sink.   --H. Brooke.
 2. Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.
    Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite.   --Ps. cxlvii. 5.
    O God, how infinite thou art!   --I. Watts.
 3. Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
    Infinite riches in a little room.   --Marlowe.
 Which infinite calamity shall cause
 To human life.   --Milton.
 4. Math. Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
 5. Mus. Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
 Syn: -- Boundless; immeasurable; illimitable; interminable; limitless; unlimited; endless; eternal.