Infinitesimal Definition

ĭnfĭn-ĭ-tĕsə-məl
adjective
Immeasurably or incalculably minute.
American Heritage
Too small to be measured.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to an infinitesimal.
Webster's New World
Capable of having values approaching zero as a limit.
American Heritage Science
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noun
An infinitesimal quantity.
Webster's New World
A variable that approaches zero as a limit.
Webster's New World

(mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).

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Other Word Forms of Infinitesimal

Noun

Singular:
infinitesimal
Plural:
infinitesimals

Origin of Infinitesimal

  • From New Latin īnfīnītēsimus infinite in rank from Latin īnfīnītus infinite infinite

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Infinitesimal Sentence Examples

  • In mechanics we are specially concerned with the theory of infinitesimal displacements.

  • Roberval was one of those mathematicians who, just before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, occupied their attention with problems which are only soluble, or can be most easily solved, by some method involving limits or infinitesimals, and in the solution of which accordingly the calculus is always now employed.

  • They afford yet another great advantage in that the derivation of the results requires only the analytic operations of the infinitesimal calculus.

  • Linlithgowshire yields nearly three-fourths of the total output, Midlothian produces nearly one-fourth, a small quantity is obtained from Lanarkshire, and there is an infinitesimal supply from Sutherland.

  • For the subjects of this heading see the articles DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FOURIER'S SERIES; CONTINUED FRACTIONS; FUNCTION; FUNCTION OF REAL VARIABLES; FUNCTION COMPLEX; GROUPS, THEORY OF; INFINITESIMAL CALCULUS; MAXIMA AND MINIMA; SERIES; SPHERICAL HARMONICS; TRIGONOMETRY; VARIATIONS, CALCULUS OF.

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