Meaning of finite in English

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finite adjective (LIMITED)

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having a limit or end:
The funds available for the health service are finite and we cannot afford to waste money.
We only have a finite amount of time to complete this task - we can't continue indefinitely.
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finite adjective (GRAMMAR)

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in a form that shows the tense and subject of a verb, rather than the infinitive form or a participle:
In the following sentence "go" is finite: "I often go to the cinema."
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Grammar

Finite and non-finite verbs
Finite verb forms show tense, person and number (I go, she goes, we went, etc.): …
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finite
adjective
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/ˈfɑɪ·nɑɪt/
having a limit or end:
We have only a finite amount of time to complete this project.
(Definition of finite from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of finite

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They are generally based on finite-state techniques that only partially exploit syntactic information.
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The resource-rich country will always emerge in finite time as the richest country.
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The stationary theory, which predated the finite-horizon one, can be obtained as a limiting case of the above, with some care though.
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Thus, w() is now a finite sequence, and thus a finite dimensional variable, which we still write as w when no confusion is possible.
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Furthermore, it formulates a 'finite bisimulation principle' for proving the equivalence of -terms.
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Moreover, for notational convenience, we limit ourselves to finite restrictions and finite sums.
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In all cases we have a finite number of -classes.
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Now, we can show that the hardening relation is image-finite.
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Section 2 introduces the finite fragment of the calculus, its syntax and reduction semantics.
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An alphabet is a finite and non-empty set of symbols.
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However, the assignment of a semantic label (such as a case) from a finite set is a useful abstraction.
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We consider how an automaton toolkit, containing a number of different types of finite automata, would be implemented with the two techniques.
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However, the relation to finite-state techniques is only implied.
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The bracketing is clearly rather odd in this, an artifact of the finite-state grammar.
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The finite-state dependency parser, and the matcher based on dependency structures are an attempt to strike the right balance.
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Translations of finite

in Chinese (Traditional)
有限的, 有限制的, 有盡的…
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有限的, 有限制的, 有尽的…
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finito, limitado, conjugado…
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finito, limitado, conjugado…
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fini, limité, personnel…
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omezený, určitý…
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begrænset, finit…
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terbatas, bersubyek…
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มีขอบเขต, คำกริยาสำคัญของประโยค…
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có hạn, có chừng, hạn chế…
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terhad, bersubjek…
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begrenzt, Verbum finitum…
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endelig, begrenset, finitt…
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limitato, finito…
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