finite quantity

collocation in English

meaningsoffiniteandquantity

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withquantity.
finite
adjective
uk
/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/us
/ˈfaɪ.naɪt/
having a limit ...
See more atfinite
quantity
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us
/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
See more atquantity

(Definition offiniteandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffinite quantity

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
The asymptotic bias is shown to be afinitequantitythat depends on the second moments (of service requirements) and weights of the other classes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Thus, we see that the (average) contribution of the existing customers to the sojourn time of a newly arriving customer is bounded above by afinitequantity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I have never taken the view that work is afinitequantity.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is no evidence that money, either nationally or internationally, is a completelyfinitequantityin terms of investment.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Unlike bacterial or some other form of organic or biological contamination of the food chain, we have here afinitequantityof substance that could easily be eliminated.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
The storage capacity of the pseudocapacitance is limited by thefinitequantityof reagent or of available surface.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
There is no such thing as an infinite number of parts contained in afinitequantity.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
It is postulated that an enormous,finitequantityof thought and action schemata exist and that they range in hierarchy.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Their universality implies that it is hard, if not impossible, to justify them in detail from finite quantities of data.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Zero divided by a negative or positive number is either zero or is expressed as a fraction with zero as numerator and thefinitequantityas denominator.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
The infinities then become large but finite quantities depending on this finite cutoff scale, and correspond to processes that involve very high energies near the fundamental cutoff.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Newton succeeded in expanding the applicability of the binomial theorem by applying the algebra of finite quantities in an analysis of infinite series.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition offinite
Go to the definition ofquantity
See other collocations withquantity