infinite series

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a sequence of numbers in which an infinite number of terms are added successively in a given pattern; the sequence of partial sums of a given sequence.

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Etymology

Origin of infinite series

First recorded in 1790–1800

Example Sentences

“We’re not going to be able to have infinite series of mandates forcing people to do this, that and the other,” he said.

From New York Times

The terms in the infinite series didn’t have a limit or a destination; they seemed to get smaller and smaller without any particular end in sight.

From Literature

It’s like Achilles and the tortoise—an infinite series of steps, each getting smaller and smaller.

From Literature

“You need not look in that way,” I said; “if you do, I’ll wear nothing but my old Lowood frocks to the end of the chapter. I’ll be married in this lilac gingham: you may make a dressing-gown for yourself out of the pearl-grey silk, and an infinite series of waistcoats out of the black satin.”

From Literature

Since the homunculus had to mature and produce its own children, it had to have preformed mini-homunculi lodged inside it—tiny humans encased inside humans, like an infinite series of Russian dolls, a great chain of beings that stretched all the way backward from the present to the first man, to Adam, and forward into the future.

From Literature