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infinitesimal::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | minute |
infinitesimal::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | variable, variable quantity |
Examples of infinitesimal
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Financial Products would earn millions in fees for taking on infinitesimal risk.
From the latimes.com
An infinitesimal percentage of passengers board a flight with deadly intentions.
From the us.cnn.com
Ordered fields that have infinitesimal elements are also called non-Archimedean.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Which when factored, produces opposite sign infinitesimal terms in each factor.
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Despite such infinitesimal thickness, it consists of several layers of particles.
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This was fundamental to the development of infinitesimal and integral calculus.
From the en.wikipedia.org
An infinitesimal percentage of the population was against concentration camps.
From the guardian.co.uk
The odds of a high school basketball player making the NBA are infinitesimal.
From the denverpost.com
An infinitesimal percent of small businesses receive venture capital funding.
From the forbes.com
- (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit
- Infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale"
- Infinitesimals have been used to express the idea of objects so small that there is no way to see them or to measure them. The word infinitesimal comes from a 17th century Modern Latin coinage infinitesimus, which originally referred to the "infinite-th" item in a series.
- A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number); Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small; Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit; Very small
- Quantities or objects so small that there is no way to see them or to measure them, so that for all practical purposes they approach zero as a limit (an idea used in the developement of infinitesimal calculus)
- The mathematical inverse of infinity, an abstract description of nearly nothing.
- (in fin i tes i mal) - Immeasurably or incalculably minute (my nyuute)
- A very small quantity, approaching zero
