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单词 ponderable
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Definition of ponderable in English:

ponderable

adjective ˈpɒnd(ə)rəb(ə)lˈpɑndərəbəl
literary
  • Having appreciable weight or significance.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • To me the strangest aspect of randomness is its role as a link between the world of mathematical abstraction and the universe of ponderable matter and energy.
    • On the contrary, it made the future less ponderable than it had been since the 1930s.
    • It is a dense and ponderable epic with Stipe asking: ‘I used to think as birds take wing/they sing through life, so why can't we?’
    • Two years later these soul supporters of the Chinook formed the Chinook Owners Association and dedicated themselves to reviving Walden's ponderable vision.
    • Thanks for your excellent site, which provides enough ponderable reading to have my brother ‘addicted’ to science, and keeps him from doing work all week.

Derivatives

  • ponderability

  • noun pɒnd(ə)rəˈbɪlɪtiˌpɑnd(ə)rəˈbɪlədi
    literary
    • I said, we humans are not the determinant factor in the ponderability of the universe.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Thus, concrete objects of experience, which have a high degree of ponderability, are the least substantial.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin ponderabilis, from ponderare 'weigh, reflect on' (see ponder).

 
 

Definition of ponderable in US English:

ponderable

adjectiveˈpɑndərəbəlˈpändərəbəl
literary
  • Having appreciable weight or significance.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Two years later these soul supporters of the Chinook formed the Chinook Owners Association and dedicated themselves to reviving Walden's ponderable vision.
    • It is a dense and ponderable epic with Stipe asking: ‘I used to think as birds take wing/they sing through life, so why can't we?’
    • To me the strangest aspect of randomness is its role as a link between the world of mathematical abstraction and the universe of ponderable matter and energy.
    • Thanks for your excellent site, which provides enough ponderable reading to have my brother ‘addicted’ to science, and keeps him from doing work all week.
    • On the contrary, it made the future less ponderable than it had been since the 1930s.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from late Latin ponderabilis, from ponderare ‘weigh, reflect on’ (see ponder).

 
 
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