infinitesimal

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The effect of the reductionist's method of cutting away what Leibniz defines as the infinitesimal, transforms the conception of physical space-time to the effect of implying a universe characterized by asymptotic universal entropy.

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  1. adjective Immeasurably or incalculably minute.
  2. adjective Mathematics Capable of having values approaching zero as a limit.
  3. noun An immeasurably or incalculably minute amount or quantity.
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  • Her hesitation was infinitesimal, and he would have missed it if he hadn't been watching her so closely. —  Stabenow, Dana - [Liam Campbell 01] - Fire and Ice
  • That is the one and only actual meaning of the use of the term infinitesimal by Leibniz. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • The effect of the reductionist's method of cutting away what Leibniz defines as the infinitesimal, transforms the conception of physical space-time to the effect of implying a universe characterized by asymptotic universal entropy. —  LaRouche's Latest
  • In that case what I have identified, immediately above, as the physical infinitesimal which is expressed as a principle of physical science, is illustrated as the issue of man's knowledge of the mastery of the use of "fire." —  LaRouche's Latest
  • No matter how infinitesimal, the employment generated by these outfits is hard to overlook. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
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  1. From New Latin īnfīnītēsimus, infinite in rank, from Latin īnfīnītus, infinite; see infinite.

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  1. = French infinitésimal = Spanish Portuguese infinitesimal = Italian infinitesimale, from New Latin infinitesimalis, infinitesimal, from infinitesimus (feminine infinitesima (later Italian infinitesima = Portuguese infinitesima = French infinitésime), sc. pars, an infinitesimal), a quasi-ordinal numeral, a term of an infinite convergent series which is preceded by an infinite number of terms, hence infinitely small, from infinitum, a quasi-cardinal, neuter of Latin infinitus, infinite: see infinite. For the ordinal termination, cf. centesimal, millesimal, etc.
 

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