INFINITESIMAL in a Sentence

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 Meanings and Examples of INFINITESIMAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
infinitesimal
 a.  very small; immeasurably or incalculably minute
Classic Sentence:
1  I am, and you are and you are and---- After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod and she winked at me again.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  It was the united products of infinitesimal vegetable causes, and these were neither stems, leaves, fruit, blades, prickles, lichen, nor moss.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
3  These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Prissy quickened her gait infinitesimally and Scarlett went back into the house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  To study the laws of history we must completely change the subject of our observation, must leave aside kings, ministers, and generals, and study the common, infinitesimally small elements by which the masses are moved.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
6  Arriving at infinitesimals, mathematics, the most exact of sciences, abandons the process of analysis and enters on the new process of the integration of unknown, infinitely small, quantities.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER XI
Example Sentence:
1  In the twentieth century, physicists have made their greatest discoveries about the characteristics of infinitesimal objects like the atom and its parts.