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Definition

limited or with boundaries

Specialized meaning: In reference to verbs, finite denotes a verb that is limited in time, by a tense, and (usually) shows agreement with number and person.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are a wealthy country, but we still have to wisely allocate finite resources.
multigrid finite element methods for electromagnetic field modeling
Use the finite-volume method to solve the equation.
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
A stick is finite and unextended wood, a fact determined by its own denial.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
He was resentenced to a finite term of years and now has hope for release.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
All those long hours, only that finite time.
Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
'Here,' said Lupin quietly, and pointing his wand at Neville's legs he said, 'Finite.'
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger
He saw each event as a point from which a finite number of possibilities radiated.
Stephen King -- Cujo
Kayo said, not much surprised by this, "What you are talking about is moha—a Navajo word, and also Sanskrit, meaning opposition of the finite.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
He learned that with her, passion could be built layer by finite layer until there was nothing else.
Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
He is finite, though he is powerful to do much harm and suffers not as we do.
Bram Stoker -- Dracula
That great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Will he draw out, For anger's sake, finite to infinite, In punished Man, to satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never?
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

(Editor's note: 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.)

He sometimes wondered whether doctors realized the emotional intensity of time, or what he was going through, or even that time was something finite.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

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