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INFINITY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time without end

Synonyms:

eternity; infinity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("infinity" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "infinity"):

alpha and omega (the first and last; signifies God's eternity)

Derivation:

infinite (having no limits or boundaries in time or space or extent or magnitude)

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 Context examples: 

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Predicted, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Predicted, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the weight.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Weight, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.

(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)