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Definition of Appreciable
1. Adjective. Enough to be estimated or measured. "Appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor"
Definition of Appreciable
1. a. Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.
Definition of Appreciable
1. Adjective. Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable. ¹
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Definition of Appreciable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appreciable
Literary usage of Appreciable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... depends on the principle that whenever the image formed on the retina is less
than sufficient to appear of an appreciable size the light is apparently ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The injury thus sustained, and which is only to a limited extent attributable to
the mining of the defendants, if at all, is hardly appreciable in ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"Bessel chose the star 61 Cygni as a likely star to be near the sun, and therefore
to have appreciable parallax. 61 Cygni is not nearly so bright as a Lyne. ..."
4. Science Abstracts by Institution of Electrical Engineers (1900)
"With the ordinary form of low potential dynamo the current is to an appreciable
extent pulsating, owing to the few commutator segments. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"You could dip them up anywhere in a bucket, and we sailed miles without noticing
any appreciable diminution in their numbers. This and like spectacles give ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1885)
"The color of the hair had undergone no appreciable change. A thorough examination
of the whole surface showed that on parts of the trunk the skin exhibited ..."
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