Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
4. (Math.) A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of
the same kind.
Note: Mathematically considered, infinity is always a limit
of a variable quantity, resulting from a particular
supposition made upon the varying element which enters
it. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict.).
5. (Geom.) That part of a line, or of a plane, or of space,
which is infinitely distant. In modern geometry, parallel
lines or planes are sometimes treated as lines or planes
meeting at infinity.
{Circle at infinity}, an imaginary circle at infinity,
through which, in geometry of three dimensions, every
sphere is imagined to pass.
{Circular points at infinity}. See under {Circular}.