Definition:Sufficiently Small

Definition
Let $P$ be a property of real numbers.

Then:
 * $P \left({x}\right)$ holds for all sufficiently small $x$




 * $\exists \epsilon \in \R: \forall x \in \R: \left\lvert{x}\right\rvert \le \epsilon: P \left({x}\right)$

That is, :
 * There exists a real number $\epsilon$ such that for every (real) number not more than $\epsilon$ in in absolute value, the property $P$ holds.

It is not necessarily the case, for a given property $P$ about which such a statement is made, that the value of $\epsilon$ actually needs to be known, merely that such a value can be demonstrated to exist.

Also see

 * Definition:Sufficiently Large
 * Definition:Arbitrarily Small