All 12 Uses
infinite
in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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- We've been picked up by a ship powered by the Infinite Improbability Drive!†
Chpt 9 *
- "Ford!" he said, "there's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."†
Chpt 9
- The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.†
Chpt 10
- Another thing they couldn't stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.†
Chpt 10
- He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long-sought-after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.†
Chpt 10
- As soon as the ship's drive reaches Infinite Improbability it passes through every point in the Universe.†
Chpt 11
- The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.†
Chpt 24
- "You know nothing of future time," pronounced Deep Thought, "and yet in my teeming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design."†
Chpt 25
- "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.†
Chpt 27
- A computer that can calculate the Question to the Ultimate Answer, a computer of such infinite and subtle complexity that organic life itself shall form part of its operational matrix.†
Chpt 28
- For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said, "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style," a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.†
Chpt 31
- It is therefore clearly an almost infinitely variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed taken as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(infinite) unlimited; without boundaries; or too numerous to count
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)