Indefinite

Indefinite may refer to:

  • In mathematics:
    • When talking about indefinite forms in multilinear algebra, see definite bilinear form.
    • "Indefinite integral" refers to the antiderivative.
    • "Indefinite" is sometimes used to describe an unknowable quantity, with meaning similar to "unlimited" or "undetermined".
  • In grammar, see indefinite article and indefinite pronoun.

Famous quotes containing the word indefinite:

    “The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty—of the indefinite expansion of possibility.”
    —Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

    “For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world.... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.””
    —Primo Levi (1919–1987)

    “There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)