Associations to the word «Infinitesimal»

Wiktionary

INFINITESIMAL, adjective. Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
INFINITESIMAL, adjective. (mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
INFINITESIMAL, adjective. (informal) Very small.
INFINITESIMAL, noun. (mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).
INFINITESIMAL ANALYSIS, noun. (archaic) (calculus) calculus
INFINITESIMAL ANALYSIS, noun. (mathematics) (analysis) a systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.
INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS, noun. (calculus) Differential calculus and integral calculus considered together as a single subject.

Dictionary definition

INFINITESIMAL, noun. (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit.
INFINITESIMAL, adjective. Infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale".

Wise words

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