But, of course, there are infinitesimal interpretations of that.
And however infinitesimal their struggles must retroactively have felt in the light of her story, there will have been that acute pang of fellow feeling, of sympathy in its purest sense.
Yosemite's El Capitan – despite appearances as a sold lump of rock – is actually expanding at an infinitesimal rate meaning everything from tiny holds to whole rock features can ultimately fall off.
The head of the Executive may, by an infinitesimal chance, be a man so exactly representative of the people, that his acts always represent their thoughts, so shrewd that he can steer his way amidst the legal difficulties piled deliberately in his path, and so good that he desires power only for the national ends.
Unfazed, scientists like Dr Goulielmakis have lighted on ways to operate on such infinitesimal timescales.They use two sets of ultra-fast laser pulses.
He thinks that living things with an origin (and, therefore, biochemistry) independent of the one that resulted in humans may exist in a "shadow biosphere" on Earth itself.Tiny lifeMost organisms, Dr Davies points out, can be seen only under a microscope, and only an infinitesimal fraction of such microbes have been investigated by researchers.
Pairs consisting of a particle and its matching antimatter antiparticle pop out of the vacuum for infinitesimal periods before annihilating each other and popping back in again.
And in his treatise De Luce ("On Light", written around 1225), Grosseteste was also the first to try to develop unified physical laws to explain the origin and form of the geocentric medieval universe of heavens and Earth.In the 13th century, atoms were thought to be infinitesimal points, so for matter to have volume, something else was needed.
This was never more clearly shown than by his dismissive judgment that "the maximum amount of bilateral trade possible between us, even if we make great efforts, is infinitesimal in terms of our total economy".
Both Airbus and Boeing have bombarded their aircraft with electromagnetic radiation at frequencies and power levels used by mobile phones, only to come away empty handed.In practice, then, the chance of unintentional transmitters doing any harm is infinitesimal.
The chance of obtaining such a man was, as we say, infinitesimal; but the United States, by a good fortune, of which they will one day be cruelly sensible, had obtained him.
