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Definition of Ponderable

1. Adjective. Capable of being weighed or considered. "Something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so"

2. Adjective. Capable of being thought about. "Space flight to other galaxies becomes more cogitable"

Definition of Ponderable

1. a. Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight.

Definition of Ponderable

1. Adjective. (physics) Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass. ¹

2. Adjective. Worthy of note; significant, interesting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ponderable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ponderable

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pondages ponded ponder ponderabilities ponderability ponderable (current term) ponderal ponderal index ponderance ponderary

ponderation ponderations ponderative pondered ponderer ponderers pondereth pondering ponderingly ponderings

Literary usage of Ponderable

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

1. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"These constituents, therefore, of ponderable bodies will be denominated ... Now all the ponderable bodies must be either unde- are either compounded, ..."

2. A System of Chemistry for the Use of Students of Medicine by Franklin Bache (1819)
"These constituents, therefore, of ponderable bodies will be denominated ... Now all the ponderable bodies must be either unde- are either compounded, ..."

3. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"We distinguish ponderable matter which has weight, and imponderable matter ... Imponderable matter (ether) and ponderable matter are not separated sharply ..."

4. New Conversations on Chemistry: Adapted to the Present State of that Science by Thomas P. Jones, Marcet (Jane Haldimand) (1832)
"Chemical Agents divided into ponderable and Imponderable. Light and Mrs B. Our last conversation has introduced you to some acquaintance with the general ..."

5. Experimental Investigation of the Spirit Manifestations: Demonstrating the by Robert Hare (1855)
"... -ponderable particles analogous to that permanently existing in magnetized steel, involves no contradiction, no absurdity, nor any thing but what is ..."

6. The Elements of Molecular Mechanics by Joseph Bayma (1866)
"A great number of scientific men, to give an explanation of calorific, electric, and luminous phenomena, assume that asther pervades all ponderable bodies ..."

7. Baltimore Lectures on Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light by William Thomson Kelvin (1904)
"So far, we have not been supported in our faith by any physical idea as to how ether could be practically incompressible when undisturbed by ponderable ..."

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