infinitesimal
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“Discovering Infinitesimal Breaths” and “Gold Limaçons for Pythagorus” do something similar.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2016
Infinitesimal radioactive isotopes can be carried along on the breeze, landing unseen on the ground, clothes and skin.
From Scientific American • Mar. 18, 2011
Infinitesimal traces of gunpowder components left on the hand by explosion gases show up unmistakably under neutron analysis.
From Time Magazine Archive
It gradually grew in importance, until, when Leibniz invented the Infinitesimal Calculus, it seemed to become the fundamental notion of all higher mathematics.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
The great inventions of the seventeenth century—Analytical Geometry and the Infinitesimal Calculus—were so fruitful in new results that mathematicians had neither time nor inclination to examine their foundations.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand
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