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Definition of Tangible

1. Adjective. Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch. "Skin with a tangible roughness"

2. Adjective. Capable of being treated as fact. "His brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"

3. Adjective. (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value. "Tangible assets such as machinery"

4. Adjective. Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt. "A palpable lie"

Definition of Tangible

1. a. Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.

Definition of Tangible

1. Adjective. touchable; able to be touched or felt; perceptible by the sense of touch; palpable ¹

2. Adjective. possible to be treated as fact; real or concrete ¹

3. Adjective. comprehensible by the mind; understandable ¹

4. Noun. real or concrete results ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tangible

1. something palpable [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tangible

tangential wound tangentiality tangentially tangents tangerine tangerine tree tangerines tangeritin tangfish tanghin

tanghinia tanghins tangi tangibilities tangibility tangible (current term) tangibleness tangiblenesses tangibles tangibly

tangie tangientially tangier disease tangies tangiest tanginess tanginesses tanging tangis

Literary usage of Tangible

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

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"These are tangible. Distance in all its forms — as distance from the eye ; as distance between parts of the same body, or magnitude ; and as distance of ..."

2. A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume, Thomas Hill Green, Thomas Hodge Grose (1882)
"These are tangible. Distance in all its forms—as distance from the eye; as distance between parts of the same body, or magnitude; and as distance of body ..."

3. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1894)
"These are tangible. Distance in all its forms—as distance from the eye; as distance between parts of the same body, or magnitude ; and as distance of body ..."

4. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1894)
"Owing to long experience of the connection of these tangible ideas with visible ones, the magnitude of the latter and their degrees of faintness and ..."

5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"The weak, the gross, the frivolous, fasten upon the tangible, and the tangible only. They see hut in Pope the waspish little humpback ; in Burns only the ..."

6. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"An assignor who has no legal title but is a mere bailee of a non-negotiable tangible chose in action can give no right even to a bona fide purchaser which ..."

7. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten, Whitten, Robert Harvey, 1873-1936 (1912)
"Columbus, Ohio, Electricity Rate Case, 1906—Fair present value of tangible and intangible property. In the case of Columbus Railway and Light Company v. ..."

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