transfinite number
an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
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How to use transfinite number in a sentence
Unless it were a transfinite number falling in love with a finite one—I suppose such things do happen, even in mathematics.
The Voyage Out | Virginia Woolf
British Dictionary definitions for transfinite number
a cardinal or ordinal number used in the comparison of infinite sets for which several types of infinity can be classified: the set of integers and the set of real numbers have different transfinite numbers
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Scientific definitions for transfinite number
[ trăns-fī′nīt′ ]
A number that is greater than any finite number.
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