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Miniscule vs Infinitesimal - What's the difference?

miniscule | infinitesimal |

As adjectives the difference between miniscule and infinitesimal

is that miniscule is misspelling of lang=en while infinitesimal is incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.

As a noun infinitesimal is

a non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).

miniscule

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (colloquial)

    • Usage notes

    * “The correct spelling is minuscule' rather than ' miniscule . The latter is a common error, which has arisen by analogy with other words beginning with “mini”, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small’.” * At the time of writing (22 May 2012), the number of hits in the printed works listed in Google Books for minuscule' outnumbers those for ' miniscule by a large amount (by 1,990,000 to 422,000, a ratio of roughly 5:1). In contrast, the numbers of hits on Google (with language set to English) are 13,000,000 to 10,900,000, a ratio of about 6:5. English misspellings

    infinitesimal

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small.
  • *
  • (mathematics) Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit.
  • (informal) Very small.

    • Usage notes

    * Strictly, this adjective, like infinite, is incomparable, so more infinitesimal' and '''most infinitesimal are proscribed, especially in the mathematical sense. However, these forms do occur in informal usage, where the ''very small (but measurable) sense is most common.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * infinite * enormous

    Noun

    (wikipedia infinitesimal) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A non-zero quantity whose magnitude is smaller than any positive number (by definition it is not a real number).

    • Antonyms

    * infinity

    Derived terms

    * infinitesimal calculus * infinitesimally