"infinitesimal" in the noun sense
1. infinitesimal
mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit
"infinitesimal" in the adjective sense
1. infinitesimal, minute
infinitely or immeasurably small
"two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"
"reduced to a microscopic scale"
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