Ad infinitum

Ad infinitum是拉丁文常用短语，意“无限”、“永远”。

描述

在上下文中通常意味“永远继续、没有限制”，可描述一永不终止的过程、一永不终止的重复过程、一永远重复的指令。类似于短语et cetera。

例子包括：“1, 2, 3, ... continues（继续） ad infinitum.”

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• "The perimeter of a fractal may be iteratively drawn ad infinitum."

The 17th-century writer Jonathan Swift incorporated the idea of self-similarity in the following lines from his satirical poem On Poetry: a Rhapsody (1733):

The vermin only teaze and pinch
Their foes superior by an inch.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum.
Thus every poet, in his kind,
Is bit by him that comes behind

The mathematician Augustus De Morgan included similar lines in his rhyme Siphonaptera.

参见

• 无限
• 数学归纳法
• 递归
• 拉丁语对英语的影响
• 拉丁主义
• 拉丁语法律术语列表
• 希腊语短语列表
• 英语的希腊语及拉丁语词根列表
• 带有英语衍生词的拉丁词列表

外部链接

• 维基词典中的词条“Ad infinitum”