Jason Priestley

As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.

Canadian Actor

James C. Maxwell

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

Scottish Mathematician

Jhumpa Lahiri

Literature is such a profound and deep way to look into someone else's life, his mind, his hopes and thoughts. Books have opened so many doors for me, taking me to places where my normal life and its finite limits could never have.

American Author

Joseph Brodsky

Because civilizations are finite, in the life of each of them there comes a moment when the center ceases to hold. What keeps them at such times from disintegration is not legions but language.

American Poet

Joshua Jackson

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

American Actor

Gary Cohn

There is a finite group of major financial players... and overall, the best thing for all of us is to be in an industry that's well respected, well regarded, and well thought of.

American Businessman

Garrett Hardin

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

American Environmentalist

James P. Carse

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

American Historian

Ethan Hawke

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Joe Russo

Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.

American Director

Use 'finite' to stress the tangible limitations of objects, resources, or situations.

Physical Limits

'Finite' emphasizes that something will not last forever, often used for effect.

Not Eternal

Describing something as 'finite' can imply the need for careful usage or conservation.

Implied Scarcity

'Finite' in grammar denotes a verb has specific tense and agrees with its subject.

Verb Details

'Finite' verbs differ from infinitives, which are the base form and not bound by tense.

Distinct from Infinitives

In math, 'finite' refers to values that can be counted or have a bound.

Countable

'Finite' in mathematics often means a set has a specific number of elements.

Definite Size

In physics, 'finite' shapes understanding that real systems have physical limits.

Realistic Constraints

Use 'finite' when discussing the measurable and non-infinite properties in physics.

Measurement Limits

 If space and time are continuous, then even a tiny piece of the universe has infinite points and becomes impossible to simulate with finite computing power. So a simulation would have to represent space and time in very small pieces. These would be almost incomprehensibly tiny. But we might be able to search for them

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 he needs to walk half the remaining distance. Again, this takes a finite amount of time. Once he gets there, he still needs to walk half the distance that's left, which takes another finite amount of time. This happens again and again and again. You can see that we can keep going like this forever,

What is Zeno's Dichotomy...

 the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds to grasp a concept as large as infinity. Maybe you can help tackle these problems after a good night's sleep. But honestly, we might need you

The Infinite Hotel...

 on that thumb and so you just said it there the Aluna isn't it yeah there's some action of those feathers that give some finite control these are the effectively the remedies it's not what it's called yeah so that's sort of the the wing feathers if you like yes the

Golden Eagle Flying In...

 we are still trying to decide which one is more important we're trying to win and beat all of these things and not realize that the game is infinite not finite and the United States policies these days are become shorter and shorter term which creates turmoil and

What game theory teaches...

 approaching a fixed number, while the perimeter was just getting bigger and bigger, uncontrollably ballooning like an overindulgent birthday clown. After infinity pinches, flimflam, there it Finite area, but infinite perimeter. Now that is a piece of work.

The case of the missing...

 not to come out to my grandmother. And I did that because I knew her life was drawing to an end, and my time with her was finite, and I did not want to talk about the ways we were different. I wanted to talk about the ways were we connected.

Three ideas. Three...

 that will inoculate us against wanderlust. But what if passion has a finite shelf life? What if there are things that even a good relationship can never provide? If even happy people cheat,

Rethinking infidelity...

 its availability is finite. Because it's lightweight when helium is released into the atmosphere it floats into space and is lost to earth forever.

Helium 101 PIPE National...

 Energy is all around us, a physical quantity that follows precise natural laws. Our universe has a finite amount of it;

Finite

Something that is limited or has an end.

In grammar, a form of a verb that shows tense, person or number.

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In mathematics, a number that is not infinite.

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In physics, a term that describes quantities which are not infinite.

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Physical Limits

Not Eternal

Implied Scarcity

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