Meaning of ponderable | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.
2. Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
3. Heavy; ponderous.
   rare

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Examples

“[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.”

“The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair.”

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