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Definition of Infinitesimal

Infinitesimal
Infinitesimal In`fin*i*tes"i*mal, n. (Math.) An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.

Meaning of Infinitesimal from wikipedia

- an infinitesimal number is a quantity that is closer to 0 than what any standard non-zero real number is, but is not 0. The word infinitesimal comes...
- generalizations of arithmetic operations. Originally called infinitesimal calculus or "the calculus of infinitesimals", it has two major branches, differential calculus...
- from the early days of calculus, put on a rigorous footing, such as infinitesimal differences and the derivatives of functions. The term is used in various...
- mathematics, the term infinitesimal generator may refer to: an element of the Lie algebra, ****ociated to a Lie group Infinitesimal generator (stochastic...
- In mathematics, infinitesimal cohomology is a cohomology theory for algebraic varieties introduced by Grothendieck (1966). In characteristic 0 it is essentially...
- extension of the real numbers to include certain classes of infinite and infinitesimal numbers. A hyperreal number x{\displaystyle x} is said to be finite...
- In mathematics, the infinitesimal character of an irreducible representation ρ of a semisimple Lie group G on a vector space V is, roughly speaking, a...
- mathematics, an infinitesimal transformation is a limiting form of small transformation. For example one may talk about an infinitesimal rotation of a rigid...
- Leibniz, uses the symbols dx and dy to represent infinitely small (or infinitesimal) increments of x and y, respectively, just as Δx and Δy represent finite...
- An infinitesimal rotation matrix or differential rotation matrix is a matrix representing an infinitely small rotation. While a rotation matrix is an...