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noun

• Endlessness, unlimitedness, absence of a beginning, end or limits to size.

• A number that has an infinite numerical value that cannot be counted.

• An idealised point which is said to be approached by sequences of values whose magnitudes increase without bound.

• A number which is very large compared to some characteristic number. For example, in optics, an object which is much further away than the focal length of a lens is said to be "at infinity", as the distance of the image from the lens varies very little as the distance increases further.

• The symbol ∞.