finite

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  1. adjective Having bounds; limited: a finite list of choices; our finite fossil fuel reserves.
  2. adjective Existing, persisting, or enduring for a limited time only; impermanent.
  3. adjective Mathematics Being neither infinite nor infinitesimal.

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  • Those of which it is true are defined as the finite numbers. —  My Philosophical Development
  • "These resources are finite, and we must plan and prepare for the day when revenues from the sale of non-renewable resources will form a smaller percentage of provincial government revenues," finance minister Merv Leitch said when he tabled the provincial budget in 1976. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • That while the universe is finite, there is no arrow of time; there is no past or present, and that in neither a big crunch nor big bang is a singularity ever reached ...
  • All resources are ultimately finite, and even if solar energy is effectively infinite, the copper and silicon upon which that resource depends are not. —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • Any object on earth has two fundamental properties: it is finite, and it is made of atoms. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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  1. Middle English finit, from Latin fīnītus, past participle of fīnīre, to limit, from fīnis, end.

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  1. = French fini = Spanish Portuguese Italian finito, from Latin finitus, past participle of finire, end, complete, finish: see finish. Cf. fine, a., ult. a doublet of finite.
  2. from finite, adjective
 

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/ˈfaɪnaɪt/
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