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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. infinitely or immeasurably small;
- Example: "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
- Example: "reduced to a microscopic scale"
[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]


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