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Definition of Imponderables
1. imponderable [n] - See also: imponderable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imponderables
Literary usage of Imponderables
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1852)
"ON THE THEORY OF THE SO-CALLED Imponderables. By Prof. JOSEPH HENRY, of Washington.
PROF. HENRY stated, that in studying the phenomena of matter, ..."
2. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"The first lecture of the second course of Cantor Lectures for the Session, " On
the Energies of the Imponderables, with especial reference to the ..."
3. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"... essences, imponderables, or a plurality of forces being attached to matter,
and places such vague assumptions rather amongst the mental creations ..."
4. Modes of Motion: Or, Mechanical Conceptions of Physical Phenomena by Amos Emerson Dolbear (1897)
"Until the middle of the present century the reigning physical philosophy held to
the existence of what were called imponderables. The phenomena of heat were ..."
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