infinitesimal

Example Sentences

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But a car either complies or it does not, no matter how infinitesimal the infraction.

From BBC

His life was infinitesimally short and packed with far more than its share of suffering.

From New York Times

These interactions, he says, are important in understanding other big problems in physics besides the proton radius, such as the mystery of how neutrinos acquire their infinitesimal mass.

From Scientific American

Theorists had previously calculated that scattering from an infinitesimally small pointlike object such as a black hole should only produce a very feeble scattering.

From Science Magazine

Measuring such changes, discerning almost infinitesimally small, disparities in weight, required a precision that might not long before her have been regarded as impossible to achieve.

From Washington Post