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finite as in:  a finite number

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  • Of course a man's time on earth is finite and may come to an end at any moment!†  (source)
  • Load the finite element analysis module!†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 'Here,' said Lupin quietly, and pointing his wand at Neville's legs he said, 'Finite.'†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Opponents of the DREAM Act view immigrants as competitors for finite American resources.†  (source)
  • As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.†  (source)
  • It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of prede termined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • =========================== Appendix I: The Ecology of Dune Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.†  (source)
  • So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea ...and turn it on!†  (source)
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