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infinitesimal
[ in-fin-i-tes-uh-muhl ]
adjective
- exceedingly small; minute:
Capillaries, the infinitesimal vessels in our circulatory system, are small enough that red blood cells must flow through them single-file.
- Mathematics.
- immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity:
An infinitesimal number is never zero, but it comes pretty close.
- of, relating to, or involving variables having zero as a limit:
infinitesimal calculus.
noun
- an infinitesimal quantity.
- Mathematics. a variable having zero as a limit.
infinitesimal
/ ˌɪnfɪnɪˈtɛsɪməl /
adjective
- infinitely or immeasurably small
- maths of, relating to, or involving a small change in the value of a variable that approaches zero as a limit
noun
- maths an infinitesimal quantity
infinitesimal
/ ĭn′fĭn-ĭ-tĕs′ə-məl /
Adjective
- Capable of having values approaching zero as a limit.
Noun
- A function or variable continuously approaching zero as a limit.
Derived Forms
- ˌinfiniˈtesimally, adverb
Other Words From
- in·fin·i·tes·i·mal·i·ty [in-fin-i-tes-, uh, -, mal, -i-tee], in·fin·i·tes·i·mal·ness noun
- in·fin·i·tes·i·mal·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of infinitesimal1
Example Sentences
But of course, the percentage of Americans who know that is infinitesimal.
"The difference between clicking and not clicking is often infinitesimal, and too much wasn't clicking," he recalls.
The territory in dispute is grand in the imaginings of history and infinitesimal in geography.
Quantum theory explains the small stuff, where matter and energy divide into infinitesimal particles.
But with so little time before actual voting begins, the margin for error is infinitesimal.
And Lecky says, "Only an infinitesimal portion of the soil belongs to the descendants of those who possessed it before Cromwell."
Average Jones became vitally concerned in removing an infinitesimal speck from his left cuff.
A portion might be termed satisfaction, and a minute balance, an infinitesimal part, termed—if there is such a thing in life—joy.
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent being.
It is, at best, only a description of an infinitesimal bit of reality.
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