| word | infinitesimal |
|---|---|
| definition | Extremely or immeasurably small. |
| eg_sentence | Looking more closely at the research data, he now saw an odd pattern of changes so infinitesimal that they hadn't been noticed before. |
| explanation | Just as infinite describes something immeasurable (“without limit”), infinitesimal describes something endlessly small. When Antonie van Leeuwenhoek invented the microscope in the 17th century, he was able to see organisms that had been thought too infinitesimally small to exist. But today's electron microscope allows us to see infinitesimal aspects of matter that even Leeuwenhoek could not have imagined |
| IPA | ˌɪnfɪnɪˈtɛsɪməl |
Tags: mwvb::unit:2, mwvb::unit:2:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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