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finite
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finite as in:  a finite number

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    He was resentenced to a finite term of years and now has hope for release.†  (source)
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    Load the finite element analysis module!†  (source)
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    Like who doesn't know that grains of sand on the planet, however numerous, are finite?†  (source)
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    But I have only a finite amount—$9,132 at this point.†  (source)
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    In the lonely blackness, I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus its preciousness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of prede termined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions.†  (source)
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    Yeobright did not fear for his own part; but recollection of Eustacia's old speech about the evanescence of love, now apparently forgotten by her, sometimes caused him to ask himself a question; and he recoiled at the thought that the quality of finiteness was not foreign to Eden.†  (source)
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    I told myself that imagining a met in my brain or my shoulder would not affect the invisible reality going on inside of me, and that therefore all such thoughts were wasted moments in a life composed of a definitionally finite set of such moments.†  (source)
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    As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.†  (source)
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    But when, for example, we ask whether the universe is finite or infinite, we are asking about a ttality of which we ourselves are a tiny part.†  (source)
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    =========================== Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.†  (source)
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    The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.†  (source)
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    Courage, I seemed to think, comes to us in finite quantities, like an inheritance, and by being frugal and stashing it away and letting it earn interest, we steadily increase our moral capital in preparation for that day when the account must be drawn down.†  (source)
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