ponderable
adjective
capable of being considered carefully or deeply.
ponderability
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a word derived from
ponderable.
Example Sentences
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Substance, however, is to be widely distinguished from ponderability.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 by Various
For a long time, philosophers who rejected the idea that ponderability is a primary and essential quality of all bodies have sought to reduce their weight to pressures exercised in a very subtle fluid.
From The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré
Altitude illustrates the ponderability of malaria by powerfully retarding its diffusion.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Far from being an accumulation of ponderable matter in a state of extremely high temperature, as science supposes, the sun represents the very opposite of ponderability.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
Exposed to heat, however, physical substance loses this feature to the extent that at the border of its ponderability all matter becomes pervious to light.
From Man or Matter by Ernst Lehrs
