finite meaning

• Adjective: finite  fInIt
  1. Bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent 
  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

  See also: bounded, delimited, exhaustible, finitely, finiteness, impermanent, limited, mortal, tensed

  Antonym: infinite

  Encyclopedia: Finite

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  [Electronics]
  Pertaining to that which has defined limits.
  finite sample space In statistics, a sample space having definite limits.
  
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  [Computer]
  1. <theory> (Or "finite", "isolated") In domain theory, an element d of a cpo D is compact if and only if, for any chain S, a subset of D,
  
  

   d <= lub S => there exists s in S such that d <= s. 

  I.e. you always reach d (or better) after a finite number of steps up the chain.
  
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  2. <jargon> Of a design, describes the valuable property that it can all be apprehended at once in one's head. This generally means the thing created from the design can be used with greater facility and fewer errors than an equivalent tool that is not compact. Compactness does not imply triviality or lack of power; for example, C is compact and Fortran is not, but C is more powerful than Fortran. Designs become non-compact through accreting features and cruft that don't merge cleanly into the overall design scheme (thus, some fans of Classic C maintain that ANSI C is no longer compact).

• Normal cells show a finite life span.
• Every open covering of x has a finite sub-covering.
• The finite size of real particles compounds the difficulty.
• A finite amount of heat is absorbed by the gas during this process.
• This type of approximation is made at a finite number of points.
• Physical insight is valuable in using the finite element method.
• The set of all strings over a finite alphabet can be generated by it.
• The set of all string over a finite alphabet can be generated by a lgg.
• The finite element method does not exhaust the possibilities for variational methods.
• Taylor's exposition based on what we would call finite differences.

• "finite" meaning in Chinese: adj. 有限的；【语法】限定的；【数学】有穷的，有尽的。 n. 〔the finite〕 有限(性)； 〔集合词...
• "finite" meaning in Japanese: finite有限ゆうげん限り有るかぎりある
• "finite" meaning in Russian: 1) ограниченный, имеющий предел2) _мат. ограниченный, коне...
• "finite" meaning in French: adj. fini (mathématique); limité