What is meant by the term finite?

Answer 1

Finite means that something has a beginning and an end. As opposed to infinite which means something has no measurable ends.

Converging lines meet at a point, parallel lines meet at infinity.

Answer 2

Finite means having limits or bounds, being limited in size or extent, and having a defined or countable number of elements. In other words, something that is finite is not infinite and has a definite end point.

Answer 3

In Japan after the tsunami, the food supply was finite.

Answer 4

Whole numbers are finite.