What is "finite"

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.