infinitesimal
extremely small; immeasurably tiny
Word origin: From Latin infinitus, infinite, via the mathematical infinitesimal.
Infinitesimal in a sentence
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The difference between the two samples was infinitesimal, barely registering on the scale.
The difference between the two measurements was infinitesimal, well below the instrument's threshold of detection.
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Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “infinitesimal” well
Infinitesimal stresses a quantity so small as to be nearly negligible, and it contrasts with enormous and vast. It is far more extreme than merely small.
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