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finite
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finite as in:  a finite number

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    I shout out, "Expelliarmus!" and Josh spins around and calls back, "Finite!"†  (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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    Load the finite element analysis module!†  (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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    =========================== 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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    "Try Finite Incantatem," said Hermione at once, "that should stop the rain if it's a hex or curse; if it doesn't something's gone wrong with an Atmospheric Charm, which will be more difficult to fix, so as an interim measure try Impervius to protect his belongings —"†  (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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