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Ponderable
adj
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.
"[T]he imponderability of heat did not appear to the philosophers of the eighteenth century to be a sufficient reason for excluding it from the list of chemical elements; and... there was... doubt... whether caloric was ponderable or not."
- 2 Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
- 3 Heavy; ponderous. rare
"The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair."
Adjective
- 1 capable of being weighed or considered wordnet
- 2 capable of being thought about wordnet
Etymology
From ponder + -able.
See also for "ponderable"
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