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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)
    Finite = limited or with boundaries
  • Load the finite element analysis module!†  (source)
  • Of course a man's time on earth is finite and may come to an end at any moment!†  (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)
    finite = limited or with boundaries
  • As the months slipped by and his infirmities mounted, Marley taught us mostly about life's uncompromising finiteness.†  (source)
    finiteness = the degree or quality of being limited or within boundaries
    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.
  • It could either react randomly, or in a limited number of prede termined ways, based on a finite number of preprogrammed conditions.†  (source)
    finite = limited or with boundaries
  • Finite Incantatem!" he shouted; Harry's feet stopped dancing, Malfoy stopped laughing, and they were able to look up.†  (source)
  • He was resentenced to a finite term of years and now has hope for release.†  (source)
  • Like who doesn't know that grains of sand on the planet, however numerous, are finite?†  (source)
  • The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite.†  (source)
  • The wasting of finite resources is everyone's business.†  (source)
  • It is actually rather startling when you sort eye colors, how limited the possibilities truly are: such a small, finite number of options.†  (source)
  • But I have only a finite amount—$9,132 at this point.†  (source)
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