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Definition of Imponderability
1. n. The quality or state of being imponderable; imponderableness.
Definition of Imponderability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Imponderability
Literary usage of Imponderability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Natural Philosophy; Or, An Introduction to the Study of the by Golding Bird, Charles Brooke (1867)
"On this supposition it is no longer needed to impute to ether imponderability,
ie, an exemption from the otherwise universal law of gravitation ; it will ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"imponderability ; it will then be competent to fulfil its divine mission of
transmitting light and heat, without doing any violence to some of the most ..."
3. The Great Harmonia: Being a Philosophical Revelation of the Natural by Andrew Jackson Davis (1890)
"Electricity is made lo descend from imponderability to ... progresses to
imponderability—solids to fluids—and the most inanimate substance is destined to go ..."
4. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1888)
"F. affusion.) Name anciently used for the shower bath. Imponderability. (L.
im, for in, nog.; ... F. imponderability ; G. ..."
5. The Philosophy of Physics: Or, Process of Creative Development by which the by Andrew Brown (1854)
"... effect of our system's central bodies, the pressure upon their own internal
matter must be immense, notwithstanding their comparative imponderability, ..."