ponderable
Etymology Adjective
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Etymology Adjective
ponderable
(physics) Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass. - 1910, E. T. Whittaker, A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity, Dublin University Press, published 1910, page 35:
- [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.
- Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
- (rare) Heavy; ponderous.
- 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 77:
- The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair.
- (having mass) massive
- (worthy of note) eminent, noteworthy; see also Thesaurus:notable
- (heavy, ponderous) hefty, massive, weighty
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