imponderable vs infinitesimal

imponderable

adj
  • Difficult or impossible to comprehend or evaluate. 

  • Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. 

noun
  • An imponderable question. 

  • A factor that cannot be anticipated. 

  • An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism. 

infinitesimal

adj
  • Incalculably, exceedingly, or immeasurably minute; vanishingly small. 

  • Very small. 

  • Of or pertaining to values that approach zero as a limit. 

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

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