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infinitesimal

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infinitesimal
1. Maths of, relating to, or involving a small change in the value of a variable that approaches zero as a limit
2. Maths an infinitesimal quantity

infinitesimal
(mathematics)
A function whose value approaches 0 as its argument approaches some specified limit.


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And if history has for its object the study of the movement of the nations and of humanity and not the narration of episodes in the lives of individuals, it too, setting aside the conception of cause, should seek the laws common to all the inseparably interconnected infinitesimal elements of free will.
While I was in the very act of yearning toward the new forms that Cleric brought up before me, my mind plunged away from me, and I suddenly found myself thinking of the places and people of my own infinitesimal past.
The pause was infinitesimal, but before he could go on Fraulein Hedwig said:
 
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