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Definition of Negligible

1. Adjective. So small as to be meaningless; insignificant. "The effect was negligible"

Definition of Negligible

1. a. That may neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration.

Definition of Negligible

1. Adjective. Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern. ¹

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Definition of Negligible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Negligible

Literary usage of Negligible

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

1. The Engineers' Manual by Ralph Gorton Hudson, Joseph Lipka, Howard Bourne Luther, Dean Peabody (1917)
"Force (F) per centimeter length between two circuits each composed of two straight wires of negligible section, located in parallel planes as shown in Fig. ..."

2. Absolute Measurements in Electricity and Magnetism by Andrew Gray (1884)
"It can therefore be determined by means of an electrometer and an electro- dynamometer of negligible self-induction without its being necessary to know the ..."

3. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"But civilization ignored the fortress as negligible, entering the country not by force of arms but by trade and education — each in ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... was only after much search that I was able to discover, that anything at all had been done; and it is so little that it is almost a negligible quantity. ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"While its utilization therapeutically has been negligible, experiments have indicated its availability as a substitute for either of the others mentioned, ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... the worldly owners; it is rather to be ascribed to the fact that at that time the metal-work for secular purposes was a practically negligible factor. ..."

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