infinity

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No safety rails and the fall at some points was 'infinity' - like 3000+ feet - you couldn't see the bottom.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being infinite.
  2. noun Unbounded space, time, or quantity.
  3. noun An indefinitely large number or amount.

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  • With the requirement of needing to focus on objects just 11 mm away right out to infinity, the challenge for the development team at the University of Arizona and the Max Planck Institute for Solar Systems was to find a lens with minimal aberrations. —  physicsworld.com: all content
  • I'm pretty sure it would be a straight line from NARAL at negative infinity to Focus on the Family at infinity (never mind the mathematics of straight lines and infinity, I'm still trying to figure out if the Big Bang happened on the first day or the zeroth day). —  In The Pink
  • The arguement that it will be obsolete before it is finished is fallacious - same as the old philosophical paradox; if you want to walk a metre then you must first walk half a metre, quarter, eighth, divide to infinity which is impossible to attain. —  NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • As n approaches infinity, the n-gon approaches the circle. —  LearnHub Activities
  • By bumping the FDIC's line of credit at the Treasury from $30 billion to infinity, the FDIC assumes fiat powers to bailout to its heart content, leaving the taxpayer to pay the bill. —  The Common Ills
 

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  1. = French infinité = Provencal infinitat, enfenitat = Spanish infinidad = Portuguese infinidade = Italian infinità, from Latin infinita(t-)s, boundlessness, endlessness, from infinitus, boundless, endless: see infinite.
 

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