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.
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   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.
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	Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, n. (Math.)
   An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any
   assignable quantity.
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	infinitesimal
     adj : infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike
           threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic
           scale" [syn: minute, microscopic]

	

	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

	

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