ponderable

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Definition of ponderable

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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. (rare)Heavy; ponderous.
    “The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair.”

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Etymology

From ponder + -able.

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