ADJECTIVE
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capable of being thought about
space flight to other galaxies becomes more cogitable -
capable of being weighed or considered
something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so
How To Use ponderable In A Sentence
- Without exception, the authoritative physicists of our time accept this plenum as a verity, and reason about it with something of the same confidence they manifest in speaking of "ponderable" matter or of, energy. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences
- This is a sophisticated military operation that will require a great deal of planing and there are many imponderables.
- The presence of so many imponderable factors necessarily renders the process a complex and imprecise one and one which is incapable of producing anything better than an approximate result.
- Two years later these soul supporters of the Chinook formed the Chinook Owners Association and dedicated themselves to reviving Walden's ponderable vision.
- Low-browed individuals were deficient in the faculties that would enable them to feel the subtle attractions exercised by imponderable fluids on the rod.
- One could never get a clear picture of the interior forces governing the ether, nor of the forces acting between the ether and the "ponderable" matter. Out Of My Later Years
- Some can be answered while others remain the imponderable stuff of philosophy.
- There are just too many imponderables flashing across the economic landscape.
- An almost imponderable quantity of this essential oil will suffice to aromatize a gallon of water. Scientific American, Volume XXXVI., No. 8, February 24, 1877 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.
- What remains imponderable is the percentage of those who will remain active and whether their activities will be directed at international targets.