as in minuscule
very small in size
a soft drink with only an infinitesimal amount of caffeine
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Recent Examples of infinitesimal
No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have been infinitesimal anyway.
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
And then there’s the plague of microplastics, those infinitesimal bits that end up in our bodies, the soil, everywhere.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
The human brain can’t even comprehend the infinitesimal amount the creators of most songs earn per stream.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 July 2024
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
And then there’s the plague of microplastics, those infinitesimal bits that end up in our bodies, the soil, everywhere.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
The human brain can’t even comprehend the infinitesimal amount the creators of most songs earn per stream.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimal
Adjective
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Last season saw the 27-year-old continue his steady production at the plate, lowering his already impressive strikeout rate to a minuscule 10.3 percent.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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That's minuscule on an everyday scale, but on the microscopic scale of nuclear physics that is a very large amount indeed.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Those in-the-moment progressions can feel tiny and barely perceptible from one session to the next.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
16 Jan. 2025
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Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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Finally, nature’s hidden secrets are shown in the microscopic world of the Close-up Photographer of the Year competition: see the winning images here.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Infinitesimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimal. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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