Infinitesimal

Adjective

 * 1) Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
 * Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?
 * 1)  Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
 * 2)  Very small.

Quotations

 * 2001 — Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, p 221
 * Then you could say that the doorway exploded. But the particular verb doesn't do the action justice.  Rather, it shattered into infinitesimal pieces.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:tiny

Antonyms

 * infinite
 * enormous

Noun

 * 1)  A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).

Antonyms

 * infinity

Thesaurus
atomic, corpuscular, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, granular, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unseeable

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: infinitesimaal,  oneindig klein


 * Finnish: äärettömän pieni

Noun

 * French:
 * Hungarian: infinitezimális


 * Russian: бесконечно малая величина
 * Swedish:

Derived terms

 * infinitesimal calculus
 * infinitesimally