Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; to an infinitesimal extent or in an infinitesimal degree.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an infinitesimal manner.
- adv. To an infinitesimal degree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. By infinitesimals; in infinitely small quantities; in an infinitesimal degree.
Examples
“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.”
“We simply know nothing about the physics -- if any -- beyond the infinitesimally thin wall of the universal hologram.”
The Huffington Post: Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul?
“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.”
The Huffington Post: David Ropeik: Warning! Health Warnings May Be Hazardous to Your Health!
“Let's be honest – the differences between Dawkns and Margulis are infinitesimally small compared to the differences between Behe and Kent Hovind.”
“Mr. SMITH: We're so used to being - and necessarily so - you know, completely worried, or completely honed in to infinitesimally small details, constantly.”
“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.”
“An infinitesimally small chance, but a chance regardless.”
“There might be an impact if this were done routinely by entire industries, but a single block of ice that size is infinitesimally small compared with a glacier.”
Karl Lagerfeld Flys in a 265-Ton Glacier for Chanel's Fashion Show | Inhabitat
“Formerly a highly social being, he submits himself to nature, his life expanding in summer and contracting in winter, the seasons evolving infinitesimally while the years blur by apace.”
“It persuades us of its symmetry while being in fact subtly asymmetrical: the nose is sharper than the rounded tail and, to my eye, the left side viewed from the tail is infinitesimally more curved than the right.”
Lists
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
I'm tagging all words ...inapplicability, unsatisfactorily, heterogeneity, disintermediation, antiglobalization, telecommunication, interdisciplinary, meteorological, socioeconomic, intelligibility, autobiographical, industrialization and 423 more...
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envelopingshadow's Words
denouement, kitsch, acrimonious, macabre, anachronism, atavism, ennui, parse, lugubrious, holism, brusque, commiserate and 164 more...
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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seven syllables
transdifferentiation, parthenogenetically, monocotyledonous, sesquicentennial, quasiperiodically, invariability, indestructibility, catazonasulculate, pseudo-etymology, paraetymology, triskaidekaphobia, epidemiology and 204 more...
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beautiful "i" words
incantation, incalculable, inconsequential, inconsolable, incontrovertible, incorrigible, indefatigably, indelicate, inexplicable, inferno, infuriating, ingloriously and 37 more...
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Danielle Word's November
remorseful, frigidly, Converge, periphery, halfhearted, infinitesimally, wryly, engulfed, flanked, cornsilk
Tweets
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dmcleod0914 "His eyes seemed to narrow infinitesimally."- Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, pg.103 Nov 29, 2010
nuxiy 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