IN MATH: 1. n. unlimited quantity, beyond limit. (symbol ). EX. As a positive number grows smaller and smaller approaching zero, its reciprocal grows larger and larger approaching infinity.

    Infinitely large is larger than a million, or billion, or trillion, or even quintillion.

IN ENGLISH: 1. an immeasurable magnitude.


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