ponderable

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See also: pondérable

English

Etymology

From ponder +‎ -able.

Adjective

ponderable (comparative more ponderable, superlative most ponderable)

  1. (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.
  2. Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
  3. (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.

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Spanish

Adjective

ponderable m or f (masculine and feminine plural ponderables)

  1. ponderable, notable
    • 2016 September 30, “Franklin Gutiérrez: En nuestro medio literario prevalece el amiguismo a todos los niveles”, in Listin Diario:
      Generalmente cada medio siglo deja tres o cuatros voces femenina ponderables a la literatura en un país.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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