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Definition of Imponderable

1. Noun. A factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed. "Human behavior depends on many imponderables"

2. Adjective. Difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision. "Such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility"

Definition of Imponderable

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

2. n. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.

Definition of Imponderable

1. Adjective. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. ¹

2. Noun. (physics) An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imponderable

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Medical Definition of Imponderable

1. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formely applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile flyids destitute of weight but in modern science little used. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imponderable

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impolitickly impoliticly impoliticness imponderabilia imponderability imponderable (current term) imponderableness imponderables imponderably imponderous

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Literary usage of Imponderable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Conversations on Chemistry: Adapted to the Present State of that Science by Thomas P. Jones, Marcet (Jane Haldimand) (1832)
"ON imponderable AGENTS. Meat capable of separation. Chemical effects of Light. Combination with compound bodies. Phosphorescence. Caloric. ..."

2. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Being an Experimental Introduction to the by Golding Bird (1848)
"It is obvious that this imponderable form of matter, or ether, which we have assumed to occupy the interspaces existing between the solid particles of ..."

3. Elements of Natural Philosophy: Being and Experimental Introduction to the by Golding Bird (1848)
"Newton, who refers, in the queries appended to his Optics,* to some of the probable properties and effects of this subtle and imponderable form of matter. ..."

4. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, John Radford Young, Wm S Orr, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1856)
"Matter which can he acted on by the force of gravitation is called ponderable, while that which is unaffected hy it is termed imponderable. ..."

5. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"Maxim respecting imponderable Elements.— Several of the phenomena which ... Hence such hypothetical fluids have been termed imponderable elements. ..."

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