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[syn: infinitesimal, minute]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, a. [Cf. F. infinit['e]simal,
fr. infinit['e]sime infinitely small, fr. L. infinitus. See
Infinite, a.]
Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable
quantity or value; very small.
[1913 Webster]
Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral
calculus, when developed according to the method used by
Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables
as infinitesimal.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, n. (Math.)
An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any
assignable quantity.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
infinitesimal
adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
[syn: infinitesimal, minute]
n 1: (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "infinitesimal":
atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular,
impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable,
indiscernible, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic,
molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable