Definitions for infinitesimals

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infinitesimals in·fin·i·tes·i·mal

Spelling: [in-fin-i-tes-uh-muh l]

IPA: /ˌɪn fɪn ɪˈtɛs ə məl/

Infinitesimals is a 14 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 1159 anagrams from letters in infinitesimals (aefiiiilmnnsst).

Definitions for infinitesimals

noun

1. an infinitesimal quantity.
2. Mathematics. a variable having zero as a limit.
3. an infinitesimal quantity.
4. Mathematics. a variable having zero as a limit.

adjective

1. indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute:
2. immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity:
3. of, relating to, or involving infinitesimals.
4. indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute:
5. immeasurably small; less than an assignable quantity:
6. of, relating to, or involving infinitesimals.

Origin of infinitesimals

1645-55; New Latin infīnītēsim(us), equivalent to Latin infīnīt(us) infinite + -ēsimus suffix of ordinal numerals + -al¹

Examples for infinitesimals

"The difference between clicking and not clicking is often infinitesimal, and too much wasn't clicking," he recalls.

But with so little time before actual voting begins, the margin for error is infinitesimal.

The territory in dispute is grand in the imaginings of history and infinitesimal in geography.

Every beginning is infinitesimal, and wrapt in the mystery of creation.

It is not the infinitesimal of time, but the negative of time.

But of course, the percentage of Americans who know that is infinitesimal.

Here we find no infinitesimal subdivision and no multiplicity of crops.

Yet surely (replied Socrates) that is only an infinitesimal part of generalship.

Quantum theory explains the small stuff, where matter and energy divide into infinitesimal particles.

To be sure, the wage was infinitesimal, while the toil was body-breaking soul-breaking.

Every beginning is infinitesimal, and wrapt in the mystery of creation.

To be sure, the wage was infinitesimal, while the toil was body-breaking soul-breaking.

Here we find no infinitesimal subdivision and no multiplicity of crops.

But with so little time before actual voting begins, the margin for error is infinitesimal.

"The difference between clicking and not clicking is often infinitesimal, and too much wasn't clicking," he recalls.

Quantum theory explains the small stuff, where matter and energy divide into infinitesimal particles.

It is not the infinitesimal of time, but the negative of time.

But of course, the percentage of Americans who know that is infinitesimal.

Yet surely (replied Socrates) that is only an infinitesimal part of generalship.

The territory in dispute is grand in the imaginings of history and infinitesimal in geography.