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