infinitesimal
Mrs Rusham's face relaxed infinitesimally.
The vast majority of Americans face an infinitesimally low risk of infection.
He paused infinitesimally.

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Examples of infinitesimally

infinitesimally
There are three point masses in the model, one point mass at the hip and two infinitesimally small masses at the feet.
The genetic model adopted is one of infinitesimally small, additive effects.
Now introduce an (infinitesimally) small amount of senescent fungus and calculate for which parameter values the senescent type invades the system.
We therefore again seek weak solutions, where the behaviour of infinitesimally small fluid volumes is ignored, and work only with integrals.
The degenerate surface may be seen as horizontal planes with infinitesimally small necks between them.
Similarly, a (first-order) deformation of possessing a classical infinitesimal weight will be called an infinitesimally classical deformation.
Thus, dignity was restricted to an infinitesimally small number of human beings and strongly associated with a position.
Certainly, the last conclusion is correct for the waves that are infinitesimally close to the highest ones.
A genetic model of infinitesimally additive effects was posited, and the validity of the results presented here rests on this assumption.
The convective motions infinitesimally distort the 2 boundary so that it is no longer flat.
Physically it means that the behaviour of infinitesimally small volumes of the fluid is irrelevant.
The latter, certainly, is correct only for waves that are infinitesimally close to the highest ones.
As the time of collision is infinitesimally short the constraint force can be modeled as an impulse at the moment of collision.
The magnetic force due to the magnet within the imaging roller is calculated as if the magnetized particle were infinitesimally small.
This is plausible, because envy complaints matter, but only 'infinitesimally' compared with equal-share claims.
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