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infinite
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2014-04-26 15:54:15 +00:00
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adj. [common] Consisting of a large number of objects; extreme. Used very
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loosely as in: This program produces infinite garbage. He is an infinite
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loser. The word most likely to follow infinite , though, is hair. (It has
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been pointed out that fractals are an excellent example of infinite hair.)
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These uses are abuses of the word's mathematical meaning. The term
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semi-infinite , denoting an immoderately large amount of some resource, is
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also heard. This compiler is taking a semi-infinite amount of time to
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optimize my program. See also semi.
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