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Adjective: finite  'fI,nIt
  1. Bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
    "The company had finite resources to allocate"
     
  2. (of verbs) relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
    "In English, 'walked' is a finite verb form"

See also: bounded, delimited, exhaustible, impermanent, limited, mortal, tensed

Antonym: infinite

Encyclopedia: Finite