Imponderable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. That cannot undergo precise evaluation: imponderable problems.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
  • n. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed.
  • n. An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, regarded as subtile fluids destitute of weight but in modern science little used.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not ponderable; not capable of being weighed; without gravity.
  • n. In physics, a thing which has no weight: a term formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, on the supposition that they were material substances, and still used of the hypothetical universal medium, ether.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed
  • adj. difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision
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