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Meaning of "transfinite number" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRANSFINITE NUMBER

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRANSFINITE NUMBER

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Transfinite number is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRANSFINITE NUMBER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Transfinite number

Transfinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers, yet not necessarily absolutely infinite. The term transfinite was coined by Georg Cantor, who wished to avoid some of the implications of the word infinite in connection with these objects, which were nevertheless not finite. Few contemporary writers share these qualms; it is now accepted usage to refer to transfinite cardinals and ordinals as "infinite". However, the term "transfinite" also remains in use.

Definition of transfinite number in the English dictionary

The definition of transfinite number in the dictionary is a cardinal or ordinal number used in the comparison of infinite sets for which several types of infinity can be classified.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRANSFINITE NUMBER

transferral
transferred
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transferrible
transferrin
transferring
transfiguration
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transfix
transfixed
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transform
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WORDS THAT END LIKE TRANSFINITE NUMBER

accession number
call number
climber
cool as a cucumber
cucumber
house number
Humber
lumber
mobile number
number
outnumber
phone number
plumber
reference number
registration number
serial number
slumber
social security number
street number
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VAT number

Synonyms and antonyms of transfinite number in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «transfinite number» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRANSFINITE NUMBER

Find out the translation of transfinite number to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of transfinite number from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «transfinite number» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

超限数
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

número transfinito
570 millions of speakers

English

transfinite number
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

transfinite संख्या
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عدد transfinite
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трансфинит
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

número transfinita
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রান্সফাইন্ড সংখ্যা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nombre transfini
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nombor transfinit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

transNummer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

超限数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

transfinite 수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nomer transfinit
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

số siêu hạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பரிமாற்ற எண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्रान्सफ्यन्म नंबर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sonsuz sayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

numero transfinite
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Numer transfinite
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трансфініт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

număr transfinite
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

transfinite αριθμό
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

transfinite aantal
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

transfinit antal
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

transfinite nummer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of transfinite number

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSFINITE NUMBER»

The term «transfinite number» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.591 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSFINITE NUMBER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about transfinite number

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSFINITE NUMBER»

Discover the use of transfinite number in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to transfinite number and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite
After all, it was the ordinals that made precise definition of the transfinite cardinals possible. And until Cantor had introduced the order types of transfinite number classes, he could not define precisely any transfinite cardinal beyond the first ...
Joseph Warren Dauben, 1990
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Eggs-en-Provence: dino : coloriages et jeux : les dinosaures ...
transfinite number, which intuitively may be thought of as an 'infinite number', requires extending beyond the familiar idea of infinity as endless (and thus unsurpassable). Also, in resonance with Pimm's (1987) observation regarding negative ...
[Author], 2013
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Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental
specifically, all have the same transfinite number. Therefore, it follows that the ordering of infinities has nothing to do with dimensions. Yet establishing a positive ordering principle, even establishing the ordering itself of the various infinities, ...
John Sallis, 2012
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Philosophical Papers, 1896-99
Russell may be referring to passages in 7SSj/ where Cantor shows that the continuum has cardinality greater than the first transfinite number (p. 308) and expresses the hope of proving that its cardinality is the second transfinite number, i.e., ...
Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin, Albert C. Lewis, 1990
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Contributions to the Founding of the Theory of Transfinite ...
For just as inside the first number-class, at any finite number, however great, we always have the same 'power' of greater finite numbers before us, there follows any transfinite number of any one of the higher number-classes an aggregate of ...
George Cantor, 2007
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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Its number should be the largest that can exist. However, Cantor had shown that the set of all subsets of a given set must have a larger transfinite number than the set itself. Hence, there must be a larger transfinite number than the largest one.
Morris Kline, 1982
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A Wealth of Numbers: An Anthology of 500 Years of Popular ...
Having demonstrated the existence ofa one-to-one correspondence, we can conclude that the class of the squares of all the natural numbers has the same transfinite number as the class of all the natural numbers! This result is not what might ...
Benjamin Wardhaugh, 2012
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Fourteen Papers on Algebra, Topology, Algebraic and ...
sionalities. Suppose that it is true for dimensionalities ind R < a i.e. for any hicompact R of dimensionality and/? < a we have Ind/? < i£(a). Let R be a compact of dimensionality and/? < a. If a is an isolated transfinite number, than at any point ...
‎1968
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Numbers: Computers, Philosophers, and the Search for Meaning
For example, does there exist a transfinite number that is strictly bigger than )0 and strictly smaller than ) 1 ? In this case an instance of this in between number is too big to be put into one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers,  ...
John Tabak, 2009
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A New and Modern Holy Bible with the Intelligent Design of ...
With this discovery, he found the next higher transfinite number, א1, which is the continuum. The continuum of numbers is a higher power. It is the next higher power compared to any infinite set that is denumerable or א0 . Cantor orders the  ...
George D. Shollenberger, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSFINITE NUMBER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term transfinite number is used in the context of the following news items.
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Strict Finitism and Transhumanism
For example, strict finitists accept finite sets of natural numbers, rational ... infinite sets and infinite series, real numbers, surreal numbers, transfinite numbers, etc. «h+ Magazine, Dec 14»
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George Cantor นักคณิตศาสตร์ผู้ให้กำเนิดทฤษฎีเซ็ต
จะมีก็แต่ Mittag-Leffler นักคณิตศาสตร์ชาวสวีเดนผู้เป็นบรรณาธิการของวารสาร Meta Mathematica เท่านั้นที่กล้านำผลงานเรื่อง “Transfinite Number” ของ Cantor ... «หนังสือพิมพ์ผู้จัดการ, Apr 13»
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The Programmer's Guide To The Transfinite
Now you can get to the bottom of the theory and the misconceptions with Aleph Zero and all that, a programmer's view of the transfinite numbers. You may have ... «iProgrammer, Jun 12»
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The 'Infinity Room': One of Many Ways to Imagine Infinity
With apprehension, we entered a stark white, brilliantly lit room with no edges. ... perhaps unsurprisingly, infinitely many of these so-called transfinite numbers," ... «LiveScience.com, Feb 12»
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Now We Know Why Children Are Getting Dumber
Once mathematicians proved there are transfinite numbers—numbers bigger than infinity—there was really nowhere else to go. Nothing left for math to do but sit ... «Reason Online, Nov 11»
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Art Installation, Big As A Warehouse, Turns Data Into A Trippy Other …
Transfinite,? for the record takes its name from the mathematical notion of transfinite numbers, which are bigger than finite numbers, but not absolute infinity. «Co.Design, Jun 11»
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Ryoji Ikeda, Park Avenue Armory, NY
Ryoji Ikeda's monster installation “The Transfinite” certainly rocks the senses. ... In mathematics, transfinite numbers occupy a conceptual middle ground ... «Financial Times, May 11»
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The Ashtray: Hippasus of Metapontum (Part 3)
Today, we have irrational numbers, imaginary numbers, complex numbers, ideal numbers, transfinite numbers, etc. To name a few. But we are not losing our ... «New York Times, Mar 11»
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Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism
It has invented Hell, predestination, being predestined to Hell, the Platonic ideas, the chimera, the sphinx, the abnormal transfinite numbers (where the parts are ... «Huffington Post, Jul 10»
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A Short History of Zero
The Muslims called it cipher and made it a real number. ... With infinity came transfinite numbers [e.g. infinity squared or infinity cubed] and imaginary numbers. «American Thinker, Jul 08»

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