infinitesimal

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
    

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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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