ponderable

See also: pondérable

English

From ponder +‎ -able.

ponderable (comparative more ponderable, superlative most ponderable)

(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.
Worthy of note; significant, interesting.
(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.

ponderable m or f (masculine and feminine plural ponderables)

ponderable, notable
- 2016 September 30, “Franklin Gutiérrez: En nuestro medio literario prevalece el amiguismo a todos los niveles”, in Listin Diario‎^[1]:
  Generalmente cada medio siglo deja tres o cuatros voces femenina ponderables a la literatura en un país.
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