Ad infinitum

Ad infinitum是拉丁文常用短語，意「無限」、永無止境

描述

在上下文中通常意味「永遠繼續、沒有限制」，可描述一永不終止的過程、一永不終止的重複過程、一永遠重複的指令。類似於短語et cetera。

例子包括：「1, 2, 3, ... continues（繼續） 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^[1]

The mathematician Augustus De Morgan included similar lines in his rhyme Siphonaptera.^[2]

參見

• 無限
• 數學歸納法
• 遞歸
• 拉丁語對英語的影響（英語：Latin influence in English）
• 拉丁主義（英語：Latinism）
• 拉丁語法律術語列表
• 希臘語短語列表（英語：List of Greek phrases）
• 英語的希臘語及拉丁語詞根列表（英語：List of Greek and Latin roots in English）
• 帶有英語衍生詞的拉丁詞列表（英語：List of Latin words with English derivatives）