Infinitesimal

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  • adjective. Immeasurably or incalculably minute.
  • adjective. Capable of having values approaching zero as a limit.
  • noun. An immeasurably or incalculably minute amount or quantity.
  • noun. A function or variable continuously approaching zero as a limit.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity.
  • noun. In mathematics, a fictitious quantity so small that by successive additions to itself no sensible quantity, such as the unit of quantity, could ever be generated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small.
  • adjective. the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.
  • noun. An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
  • adjective. Very small.
  • noun. A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit
  • adjective. infinitely or immeasurably small
  • Word Usage
    "That is the one and only actual meaning of the use of the term infinitesimal by Leibniz."
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    little  small  
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