method of indivisibles
English
Noun
method of indivisibles (plural not attested)
- (obsolete) An old kind of calculus in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for method of indivisibles in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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