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Infinitesimal

in mathematics, a quantity. Infinitesimals are of different except in comparison with some other orders. No quantity is great or small able quantity; a quantity so small as that is, so small that it may be contained except in comparison with some other quantity. An infinitely small quantity of the first order is one that is infinitely small with respect to a finite quantity, that is, so small that it may be contained respect to an infinitely small quantity of the first order. in it an infinite number of times. An the first order. the whole or any part of the system, INFLAMMATION, a morbid state of der is one that is infinitely small with

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