finite

In a sentence

Six example sentences with finite, each labelled with its topic.

• Every athlete works with a finite number of hard sessions each month, and spending them badly wrecks the whole season.

  Fitness

• Every budget is finite, so a council that funds the new library must postpone something else on the list.

  Economics

• A star carries a finite store of hydrogen, and everything about its later life follows from how fast it burns.

  Science

• Because a human life is finite, the Stoics argued, every hour spent on envy is an hour stolen from something better.

  Philosophy

• A 32-bit counter is finite, and the system clock overflowed exactly when the engineers had forgotten it would.

  Technology

• The aquifer is finite, refilling over centuries, yet the valley pumps it as though the well went down forever.

  Environment

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains finite. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• stability
• mechanism
• coordinate
• dynamic
• previously
• imposing
• functional
• conversely
• somewhat
• implement
• contrasting
• correspond