Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; to an infinitesimal extent or in an infinitesimal degree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
infinitesimal manner. - adverb To an
infinitesimal degree.
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Examples
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The move was a symbolic gesture to show that he is contributing "infinitesimally" more than the board for an estimated half-billion-dollar liability down the road.
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tells us nothing about one of the most important elements of risk... what dose causes what level of risk the risk from infinitesimally small doses like this is usually infinitesimal or non-existent.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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It's the creators not the businessmen you are harming by stealing, the market is infinitesimally smaller and comics are far more expensive to distribute than music.
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An infinitesimally small chance, but a chance regardless.
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Mr. SMITH: We're so used to being - and necessarily so - you know, completely worried, or completely honed in to infinitesimally small details, constantly.
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tells us nothing about one of the most important elements of risk... what dose causes what level of risk the risk from infinitesimally small doses like this is usually infinitesimal or non-existent.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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We simply know nothing about the physics -- if any -- beyond the infinitesimally thin wall of the universal hologram.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics tells us nothing about one of the most important elements of risk... what dose causes what level of risk the risk from infinitesimally small doses like this is usually infinitesimal or non-existent.
David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health! David Ropeik 2011
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We simply know nothing about the physics -- if any -- beyond the infinitesimally thin wall of the universal hologram.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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Let's be honest – the differences between Dawkns and Margulis are infinitesimally small compared to the differences between Behe and Kent Hovind.
nuxiy commented on the word infinitesimally
Gravity effects the flow of time , indeed you age infinitesimally differently if you worked on the top of of very high mountain when compared to anyone living at sea level "THIS IS A FACT OF PHYSICS"
- Alan McDougall on Philosophyforum.com
May 22, 2009
dmcleod0914 commented on the word infinitesimally
"His eyes seemed to narrow infinitesimally."- Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, pg.103
November 29, 2010