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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Infinitesimal \In`fin*i*tes"i*mal\, n. (Math.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: infinitesimal adj : infinitely or immeasurably small "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" [syn: {minute}, {microscopic}]
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