Many of the fuels we use to generate electricity —natural gas, oil, coal—are abundant yet finite.
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The reservoir of settlement-related projects available for promotion is finite.
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And they're wise to pursue this course, because the most finite resource in this discussion is land.
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For all practical purposes, the world's supply of oil is not finite.
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We only have a finite amount of fresh H2o and food on the planet, there is no more.
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That knowledge is directly revealed while we are apprehending any finite object, as its correlative and complementary antithesis.
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To throw words like finite and infinite at such a Being is to make ourselves ridiculous.
Psychical Miscellanea|J. Arthur Hill
The finite person is an intellect, sensibility, and will; but these are circumscribed by innumerable limitations.
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To the Buddhist, in short, the element of time and the finite is all, as to the Brahman the element of eternity is all.
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A finite event occupies a limited chunk of this manifold in a sense which I now proceed to explain.
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British Dictionary definitions for finite
finite
/ (ˈfaɪnaɪt) /
adjective
bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extenta finite difference
mathslogichaving a number of elements that is a natural number; able to be counted using the natural numbers less than some natural numberCompare denumerable, infinite (def. 4)
limited or restricted in naturehuman existence is finite
(as noun)the finite
denoting any form or occurrence of a verb inflected for grammatical features such as person, number, and tense
Derived forms of finite
finitely, adverbfiniteness, noun
Word Origin for finite
C15: from Latin fīnītus limited, from fīnīre to limit, end
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