Infinitesimal: Definition and part of speech

Infinitesimal

  1. n. An infinitely small quantity; that which is less than any assignable quantity.
  2. a. Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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