Now a continuous sequence of infinitesimal phase kicks like this produces something that's mathematically identical to a wave that's just traveling slower.
That wasn't quite such a sleepy town after a collision involving a trailer full of fireworks it led to a light show that was anything but infinitesimal.
In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.
The masts rocked sleepily to the infinitesimal flux of the tide, which clucked and gurgled with idle regularity in nooks and holes of the harbour wall.
But Voldemort broke off: Harry heard a scuffle and a shout, then another bang, a flash of light, and grunt of pain; he opened his eyes an infinitesimal amount.
That is, it will represent one facet of the primary gestalt, but a facet so infinitesimal in the overall reality of the primary gestalt that it distorts beyond all recognition.