Definition of "transfinite" [transfinite]

• Going beyond the finite. (adjective)

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• "Must try and explain transfinite post-capitalist economic theories to someone else one of these days, see if they think I'm talking out of my arse ...."
• "They suck in infinite, recursively looping, transfinite time."
• "Indeed, between non-Euclidean geometry in the 1820s, abstract algebra in the mid-1800s, and transfinite numbers in the 1880s, it had begun to seem like mathematics was a kind of universal framework for abstraction."