as in minuscule
very small in size
a soft drink with only an infinitesimal amount of caffeine
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Recent Examples of infinitesimal
Some bits get altered periodically in a database somewhere, as infinitesimal patches of ferromagnetism on disks or electromagnetic pulses flitting from here to there.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
At $1 per month ($12 per year) this ranges from a mere 0.08% for the lower class to an infinitesimal 0.00048% for the upper class.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have been infinitesimal anyway.
—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 May 2012
At $1 per month ($12 per year) this ranges from a mere 0.08% for the lower class to an infinitesimal 0.00048% for the upper class.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have been infinitesimal anyway.
—Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
See all Example Sentences for infinitesimal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimal
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Last season saw the 27-year-old continue his steady production at the plate, lowering his already impressive strikeout rate to a minuscule 10.3 percent.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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That's minuscule on an everyday scale, but on the microscopic scale of nuclear physics that is a very large amount indeed.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
15 Jan. 2025
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There was a tiny cell, its walls painted deep red and carved with graffiti, where prisoners who were to be executed were kept.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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The pup worked for 13 years helping make others smile — including countless patients at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he was named the tiniest therapy dog out of more than 100 enrolled in the hospital’s Amerman Family Foundation Dog Therapy Program.—
Luke Chinman,
People.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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Finally, nature’s hidden secrets are shown in the microscopic world of the Close-up Photographer of the Year competition: see the winning images here.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Infinitesimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimal. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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