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indefinite number

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a variable or unspecified number.


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A 1951 defense treaty gave the U.S. the right to establish an indefinite number of bases in perpetuity, provided it informed Denmark and Greenland.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 11, 2026

It is now authorized to add an indefinite number without first seeking the S.E.C.’s blessing.

From New York Times Apr. 8, 2022

“The ability for the same share to be shorted an indefinite number of times is somewhat of a pathology and that should be fixed,” said Robinhood Chief Executive Officer Vlad Tenev.

From Reuters Feb. 19, 2021

The Committee of Treasury, formed of an indefinite number of the older members of the directorate of 24, regulated the daily business between the Bank and the Treasury, for which it is sole banker.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a "square-ring"—if I may use that paradoxical phrase—built of four slowly moving conveyor belts upon which a package may travel an indefinite number of round-trips.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

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