infinitesimal calculus

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noun

the differential calculus and the integral calculus, considered together.

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Origin of infinitesimal calculus

First recorded in 1795–1805

Words nearby infinitesimal calculus

infinite decimal, infinite product, infinite regress, infinite series, infinitesimal, infinitesimal calculus, infinitival, infinitive, infinitive clause, infinitive marker, infinitize

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How to use infinitesimal calculus in a sentence

Hongkongers aren't asking to secede from China, but Beijing's faulty calculus is only alienating the city.
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She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework.
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Instead the real defining issue—class—does not fit so easily into the current political calculus.
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With other emerging allies the calculus is trickier and leaves less margin for error.
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Politics also played a role in the calculus of the Arab Muslims who supported ISIS.
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Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
Besides these general theorems of formul, what remains in the algebraical calculus is the resolution of equations.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill
And Lecky says, "Only an infinitesimal portion of the soil belongs to the descendants of those who possessed it before Cromwell."
Is Ulster Right?|Anonymous
Average Jones became vitally concerned in removing an infinitesimal speck from his left cuff.
Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams

British Dictionary definitions for infinitesimal calculus

infinitesimal calculus

noun

another name for calculus (def. 1)

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