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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

An indefinite number of collaborators, all newspapermen, wrote this account of a rewrite man's hard luck.

From Time Magazine Archive

People, pē′pl, n. persons generally: the men, women, and children of a country or a nation: the mass of persons as distinguished from the rulers, &c.: an indefinite number: inhabitants: the vulgar: the populace:—pl.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

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