1mass noun The state or quality of being infinite.

空间的无限性。

1. 1.1count noun An infinite or very great number or amount.
   无穷数，无限量；很大的数量
   an infinity of combinations

   无穷的组合。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It is always simple to fall; there are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.
   • The opening sequence of his six-minute abstract video drags you out of the surrounding blackness and absorbs you into a receding infinity of coloured rectangles which may be an animated painting by Josef Albers.
   • Australians are squeezed between two inhospitable infinities, one dry, the other wet.
   • Those are the authentic prescribed vignettes, but, like Scrabble's alphabetic squares, there is an infinity of ways in which to range and rearrange them, and the message that they convey.
   • Shows such as these and an infinity of others, occupy a vast portion of viewing time on our screens, and merit an entire column on their own.
   • You'll see that this stretch of Nevada is pretty damn ugly: infinities, in every direction, of dry, brownish-gray earth that is too bland to be called dirt, too soiled to be called soil.
   • Knowledge infinities are not now available to us, nor are they ever likely to be.
   • I suppose there must be a perfect supermarket somewhere, on the same kind of principle that has the works of Shakespeare produced by an infinity of typing monkeys.
   • Nevertheless, this second favor was rarely granted; there was an infinity of claims, blind as well as enlightened, as it may please you now to call them.
   • There is no end to this inconceivable infinity of infinities’.
   • There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing.
   • No such consolation is offered by Fiennes' vision of the featureless infinities of downtown LA.
   • But this spectrum is at right angles to the first, generating a person-space with an infinity of different potential placements.
   • Every architecture project starts with an infinity of possibilities.
   • I've traveled through the blind infinities of existence since I could scarcely speak.
   • They present an infinity of variable shapes and colors and features.
   • These questions and others are being asked at hundreds of meetings and in an infinity of conversations, memos and e-mails.
   • I don't want to be part of a production line. I'd prefer, instead, to have no names or an infinity of names, and to make identification through a binding of addresses against possibilities.

   Synonyms

   infinite number, unlimited number, very great number, abundance, profusion, host, multitude, mass, wealth

   informal heap, stack, ton

   British informal shedload
2. 1.2 A point in space or time that is or seems infinitely distant.
   无限远的地点（或时间点）
   the lawns stretched into infinity

   草坪绵延不断地延伸开去。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • No longer are they confined by the walls of a classroom; instead, the empty field stretches out to infinity, as the fog hides the horizon.
   • Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.
   • To our north, the vast featureless Kazakh steppes, an area the size of Western Europe, stretched away seemingly to infinity.
   • The held tones become vitally important as the piece progresses and the primary motif slows to a crawl; with more space between the notes the connecting drone that stretches to infinity becomes the focus.
   • It was never-ending, a black blanket that stretched to infinity.
   • The posters - showing images such as a parking lot full of spaces for disabled people and a length of highway lined with corpses stretching to infinity - are arresting and partly succeed.
   • We pass a stretch limo carrying a woman with a masklike face that has been stretched to infinity.
   • This is abundantly clear in his discussion of infinity.
   • The subway car seemed to be elongating, the metallic ceiling stretching to infinity as he struck out at me with hands that weren't actually hands, but talons of nameless rage.
   • A line that stretched from here to infinity appeared in front of me.
   • The plains still stretched to infinity and the mountains appeared no closer even at maximum zoom.
   • But once you're at the summit, the views appear to stretch to infinity.
   • Other than a few inquisitive goats and a lot of cow dung, the road was empty, and it seemed to stretch on to infinity, a thin gray ribbon cutting across the arid desert.
   • Shelves of toiletries stood on either side, stretching to infinity.
   • Comfy leggings and cycle shorts - they won't stretch to infinity, though, so you may need to buy maternity versions eventually.
   • The lights on the Bay Bridge seemed stretched out to infinity.
   • In fact, at the start of school holidays it stretched to infinity and if it seems a little shorter now, that is only in the same way as a grown-up child revisits the old family home and finds that it has shrunk.
   • Beyond the window, space stretched out to infinity, looking coldly back at them.
   • The pale grey concrete floor changes here to dark blue and cubicles are hidden behind a screen of brilliant pink plaster, stretched to infinity by a mirrored wall.
   • The next few minutes and miles seemed to stretch on to infinity.

2Mathematics
A number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number (symbol ∞)