infinitesimal

Converse of object

• use: This paper offers a glimpse of how Euler used infinitesimals and infinite series to compute differentials for the elementary functions.

Modifies a noun

• calculus: The term " derivative, taken from infinitesimal calculus, refers to an isolated aspect, or " function " of a real quantity.
• geometry: Pascal asserted that his rules for infinitesimal geometry were equivalent to those used by the ancient Greeks.
• amount: Indeed, these good qualities are an infinitesimal amount of all His good qualities.
• change: How could the switch ever be triggered by an infinitesimal change in the outside temperature.
• operation: If consciousness is cinematographic in the former case, this is only possible on the basis of the infinitesimal operation of the bodily differential.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: Spike catches the almost infinitesimal start Syd gives on seeing the mummies.

Preposition: in

• comparison: The actual risks are infinitesimal in comparison to e.g. the incidence of Campylobacter - which can actually kill.
• relation: A pint of an infinite Atlantic is infinitesimal in relation to it.