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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
finite
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a finite resource (=one which is limited in amount, so that it will no longer exist if people continue to use it)
▪ Crude oil is a finite resource.
finite (=showing tense and person)
▪ 'Was' is a finite verb.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
▪ It isn't a finite amount that makes your share smaller the more individuals added.
▪ There is a finite amount of government resources we can bring to bear.
▪ This occupies the evaluation faculty of which there is a finite amount.
▪ On the contrary, they are partners for a finite amount of time usually dedicated to a finite objective.
▪ There isn't a finite amount of love to go round so there's a danger some one else might nick your share.
element
▪ This is the power of the finite element method.
▪ The finite element and dynamic stiffness methods are introduced and exemplified in simple cases.
▪ The use of parallel processing in finite element analysis.
▪ In this case the subject for the finite element analysis is the bone.
number
▪ There would be a finite number - you would be able to count them all.
▪ The series of numbers is like the series of human beings-in-finite numbers of individuals.
▪ In any event there is a finite number of overfed rich providing a flow of plates to be scraped.
▪ What is needed is some basis for estimating the functional from a finite number of experimental results.
▪ There appears to be only a finite number of such theories.
▪ Each partition contains space for a finite number of items which are added and deleted in a pre-defined order.
▪ Similarly there are a finite number of types of module; source, foreign, package, and pmodel.
resource
▪ This indeed has been the case ever since self-replicating molecular assemblages evolved to exploit finite resources.
▪ Plastic-producing petroleum is a finite resource.
▪ Social evolution without ecological reference is ultimately a logical impossibility in a world of finite resources.
▪ However, given finite resources, concepts of effectiveness and efficiency must be considered alongside concepts of need.
▪ Large amounts of undeveloped land, a finite resource, have been covered by roads and built development.
▪ The habitat of an animal population offers only finite resources for its use.
set
▪ This ability removes the restriction on context-free grammars that only a finite set of grammatical categories are allowed.
▪ At any one moment, there is a definite and finite set of possible futures for elementary particles.
▪ When each state has only a finite set of children, this won't happen.
▪ But the algorithm is the same finite set of instructions no matter how big the numbers.
▪ Bacon's search involves discrete steps in a finite set of directions, rather than steps through a continuum.
▪ In the following, small letters represent natural numbers and capital ones, finite sets of natural numbers.
▪ It is quite easy to restrict normal form programs to finite sets of values.
▪ Small finite sets can be exhibited in several ways.
state
▪ Fig 2.1 shows a very simple finite state diagram.
▪ The major failing with finite state grammars is their inability to deal with any dependencies that exist between non-adjacent words. 2.2.3.1.
▪ Finite State Grammars Although finite state grammars are weak they have been used in computational systems.
time
▪ At a given moment finite time came into existence out of infinite time.
▪ It was a case of finite time and brainpower too broadly dissipated, Taylor came to think.
▪ This, like the argument about human progress, suggests that the universe can have been going only for a finite time.
▪ The electrical problem arises from the finite time it takes a signal to travel across a chip.
verb
▪ It consists of the notional component of the finite verb and the rest of the message.
▪ Here, finite verbs will agree in both cases with the superficially plural pronoun.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Oil is a finite resource.
▪ The earth has a finite number of resources which we must protect.
▪ The speed at which light travels is finite.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A straight, uniform and finite line has symmetry about its midpoint.
▪ At any one moment, there is a definite and finite set of possible futures for elementary particles.
▪ But the algorithm is the same finite set of instructions no matter how big the numbers.
▪ How can an infinite intelligence and life everlasting exist within finite bounds?
▪ Rising expectations are driving up demand for gasoline, a finite commodity.
▪ The finite age of the universe is measured in proper time.
▪ Then he took account of the finite size of the planets and treated them as spheres.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finite

Finite \Fi"nite\, a. [L. finitus, p. p. of finire. See Finish, and cf. Fine, a.] Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
finite

early 15c., "limited in space or time, finite," from Latin finitum, past participle of finire "to limit, set bounds; come to an end" (see finish (v.)). Related: Finitely; finiteness.

Wiktionary
finite

a. 1 Having an end or limit; constrained by bounds. 2 (context grammar as opposed to infinite English) limited by person or number. (from 19th c.)

WordNet
finite
  1. adj. bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent [ant: infinite]

  2. of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person [ant: infinite]

Wikipedia
Finite

Finite is the opposite of infinite. It may refer to:

  • Finite number (disambiguation)
  • Finite set, a set whose cardinality (number of elements) is some natural number
  • Finite verb, a verb form that has a subject, usually being inflected or marked for person and/or tense or aspect

Usage examples of "finite".

I guessed that a finite number of canes were sold in America from that specific palm, which grows on the coasts of the Malay Peninsula, out of the beaten track.

His salvation is to be freed from the vortex of births and deaths, the fret and storm of finite existence.

But when real Spirit descends, it blasts to smithereens the mother archetype, the father archetype, and every other itty bitty finite archetypeit is coming from the other direction with the force of infinity, and not some merely past and finite evolutionary habit.

A floating point value consists of a mantissa, which is a finite number of digits, and an exponent.

I shall write of the epics as of a finite number of words telling of an indefinitely large world.

Wili had completed his first pass through functional analysis and now undertook a three-pronged expedition that Naismith had set for him: into finite galois theory, stochastics, and electromagnetics.

My belief is that though the Greater Universe may be a closed and finite hypersphere, it is not expanding, but static.

This Being must be a derived existence, which has already in some fashion a finite element in itself, because it is the hypostatised Word of creation, which has an origin.

Quattro di loro tenevansi in agguato in una gondola ben pagata, con istruzione segreta, di sbarazzarsi anche del gondoliere a cose finite per non avere indiscreti testimoni, che potessero deporre contro di loro.

In Mime, which sees the universe as finite and expanding, the Mach hypothesis dictates that every point is a unique point of vantage- except for the metagalactic center, which is stress-free and in stasis because all the stresses cancel each other out, being equidistant.

There is a finite probability, as I see it, that the train will eventually pass from the nonspatial part of the network, which it now occupies, back to the spatial part.

Why do melodies consist of notes with constant pitch values taken from scales, where a scale consists of a finite set of possible pitch values?

However, because the musical melody consists of notes held at fixed pitches selected from a finite set of values, the response of the cortical map consists of high activity of some neurons and very low or zero activity of other neurons.

The BMI delivers to us an intuition to implement the greatest depth across the greatest span, a spiritual Concern for all four quadrants, and the painful dilemmas of how to implement this intuition are the dilemmas of finite beings in finite circumstances attempting to honor an infinite Care.

From these finite spirits, the popular religions of different nations derive their origin.