INFINITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does infinity mean? 

• INFINITY (noun)
  The noun INFINITY has 1 sense:

1. time without end

  Familiarity information: INFINITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFINITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time without end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

eternity; infinity

Hypernyms ("infinity" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infinity"):

alpha and omega (the first and last; signifies God's eternity)

Derivation:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

 Context examples 

The percentage of the area under the urine excretion rate curve (AURC) extrapolated to infinity observed from Tlast to infinity.

(Observed Area Under the Urinary Excretion Rate Curve Percent Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the urinary excretion rate curve (AURC) from the last observed non-zero rate value to infinity as a percentage of the area under the urinary excretion rate curve extrapolated to infinity.

(Observed Area Under the Urinary Excretion Rate Curve Percent Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The observed mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity.

(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus)

The mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Observed Mean Residence Time Infinity, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A cousin of Mr. Suckling, Mrs. Bragge, had such an infinity of applications; every body was anxious to be in her family, for she moves in the first circle.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The area under the moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(AUMC Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the weight.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An estimate of the volume of distribution at steady state, which is the mean residence time (MRT) extrapolated to infinity times steady state clearance (MRTINF*Clss), based on the last observed concentration.

(Observed Steady State Volume of Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)