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In context, it usually means "continue forever, without limit" and this can be used to describe a non-terminating process, a non-terminating
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process, or a set of instructions to be repeated "forever," among other uses. It may also be used in a manner similar to the Latin phrase
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to denote written words or a concept that continues for a lengthy period beyond what is shown. Examples include:
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De Morgan, Augustus (1915). Smith, David Eugene (ed.).
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Index

Ad Infinitum (disambiguation)
Latin
phrase
infinity
et cetera
sequence
fractal
Jonathan Swift
self-similarity
Augustus De Morgan
Siphonaptera
Mathematical induction
Recursion
Self-reference
The Song That Never Ends
Turtles all the way down
On Poetry: a Rhapsody
A Budget of Paradoxes
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t
e
Infinity

Ananta (infinite)
Apeiron
Controversy over Cantor's theory
Galileo's paradox
Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
Infinity (philosophy)
Paradoxes of infinity

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