infinitesimally

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Recent Examples of infinitesimally The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges. Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise. Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026 At this time, experts say, only a handful of laboratories in the United States have a way to detect the infinitesimally tiny particles. Sandee Lamotte, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026 Each loop is then placed in an infinitesimally tiny well in a microchip, which can have 25 million of those wells. IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025 These ultra-sensitive sensors can detect infinitesimally small traces of magnetic and gravitational signals from within the earth. Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimally
Adverb
  • The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
    Guy German, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.
    Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 31 May 2026
Adverb
  • The rival closed her eyes, shivered, nodded almost imperceptibly.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026
  • The nanobubbler system — essentially imperceptibly small bubbles meant to oxygenate the water and choke off algae growth — had never been tested at this scale on a public monument before deployment.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 July 2026
Adverb
  • The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
    Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Its standout feature is its hyper-deformable wheels, minutely structured from silicone, composite, and stainless steel, which create a soft, enlarged contact surface with the terrain.
    Tim Barber, Wired News, 14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Shares are down fractionally this morning but entered today within a few bucks of their all-time high.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Dividends, corporate actions, tax reporting and reconciliation all become more complicated when positions are held fractionally across multiple currencies and markets.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

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“Infinitesimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimally. Accessed 14 Aug. 2026.

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