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1) Branch of calculus 2) Immeasurably small 3) Mathematical logic 4) Microscopic 5) Minute 6) Nearly O 7) Small 8) Start of the commentary
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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 insight with exploiting infinitesimals was that objects could still retain certain specific properties, such as angle or slope, even though these objects were quantitatively small. The word infinitesimal comes from a 17th-...
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• (a.) Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. • (n.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.
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in mathematics, a quantity less than any finite quantity yet not zero. Even though no such quantity can exist in the real number system, many early ... [9 related articles]
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A number that is greater than zero yet smaller than any positive real number. In a sense, infinitesimals are to small what infinity is to large. They were first introduced by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz in their early versions of calculus; however, the lack of a rigorous definition for them s...
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In`fin·i·tes'i·mal adjective [ Confer French
infinitésimal , from
infinitésime infinitely small, from Latin
infinitus . See
Infinite ,
adjective ] Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small.
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[
adj] - infinitely or immeasurably small
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A variable that approaches zero as a limit. See also: Limit.
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minute adjective infinitely or immeasurably small; `two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm`; `reduced to a microscopic scale`
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In a phraseology which is logically inexact but nevertheless common, an infinitesimal is a quantity, or a variable, whose limit is 0. Thus in considering the limit of f(x) as x approaches c, if this limit is 0 the 'quantity' f(x) may be said to be an infinitesimal; or in considering the limit of f(x) as x approaches 0, the 'quantity' x may be said....
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indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system. · immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity: to an infinitesimal degree. · of, pertaining to, or involving infinitesimals.
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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)
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[SAT terms] immeasurably small
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