negligibly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]negligible + -ly
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]negligibly (not comparable)
- To a degree that is negligible; so small or slight that it may be ignored.
- 1920, Albert Einstein, Relativity: The Special and General Theory:
- Thus if the spherical surface beings are living on a planet of which the solar system occupies only a negligibly small part of the spherical universe, they have no means of determining whether they are living in a finite or in an infinite universe.