The word
"finite" means that something has a limit or an end. It refers to something that is measurable, countable, or has a definite quantity, and cannot go on forever.
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It's a nice idea, but the Style point rewards could be a problem since they aren't hard to get anyway and there's a very
finite amount of stuff to unlock.
The administration is betting on states to focus their efforts on a small,
finite number of low - performing schools.
There's a bigger question here, though, relating to how humans — as populations grow and grow more prosperous — choose to relate to the other inhabitants of this very
finite planet.
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in finite element analysis and design.
That subsidy, which has enabled human population and wealth to grow exponentially, is based
on finite resources and can not continue indefinitely.
This method allows a fluid - structure interaction analysis with ease compared to other numerical methods such as
finite element methods.
Rather than traveling
for finite periods of time and then returning to «normal lives», they decided to make traveling a lifestyle, something truly sustainable.
But with
finite time and resources, which policies and reforms should we back?
That which can give being to everything that is can not be understood as one
finite entity among others, or as merely the first in a long series of causal agents.
His company is named for the digital currency's
finite supply of coins.
One is a product of ignorance and one of knowledge and both will be in infinite supply as long as we have
finite life spans and share cultural knowledge.
The problem arises because,
as finite creatures, we inevitably see the world from some particular point of view limited by culture and history.
What those placements had in common is that they were for
finite periods.
Its implementation, however, must be
by finite human creatures.
And because most of this energy comes
from finite resources, simply increasing supplies of these resources is not an option.
The homosexual person does not have a disorder that puts him in a separate category from other fragile and
finite human beings, [11] and which then deserves special legal protection.
I can't get enough of such views, which always help remind me of the special and
finite nature of our shared home.
Having said this, we must not forget, however, that it is also appropriate to think of ourselves as
finite beings, limited by biological and historical constraints.
This is a very natural modification, since it is the same way
finite occasions interact with one another.
But every term or concept that we employ has arisen and received its meaning in our relations with
finite things.
There is a very
finite limit to the amount of books a single POD machine can print in a day.
I should add that we are both structural engineers who
use finite element software extensively.
There is a near - infinite amount of information online and
very finite amounts of time your readers are willing and able to commit to your literary masterpiece.
It's obvious that economic and population growth can't continue at current rates without crashing
into finite resource limits with painful results, and possibly abrupt reductions in growth.
Yet, as cancer is a complicated disease of the immune system involving excessive growth of cells having altered DNA, the origins of the disease never have singular nor
finite cause.
Because light moves
at finite speed, looking farther into the universe means looking back in time.
Here's the rub: You're working with seriously
finite space on a 2 - page resume.
He then concludes that the universe has a cause of its existence, which by definition transcends the whole realm of
finite reality, and which must be a personal or psychic being.
The balance of analogy
between finite and infinite is delicate, yet essential for sanity as well as freedom.
They're the only practical means of rapidly addressing two crises — global warming and our dependence on
finite energy resources largely derived from the world's most volatile regions.
Notice, the folded tent occupies a small but
finite volume, and it is then stretched from without, not pushed from within.
A discussion about the universe reduces the discussion to a possibly
finite object (a possibly transient object) that is possibly caused by something else.
The illusion that an economy is really like a big
finite pie must also be maintained.
Sure if all populations did as they grew and grew was use up
more finite «stuff», then we would indeed have cause to worry.