(a.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) And “events” – the great imponderables of campaigns – have also been helping Labor.
(2) Certainly there are distinctive environmental, physiological and psychological problems that must be considered, but these should not be imponderable.
(3) Eurozone finance ministers are to meet in Brussels on Monday to ponder their options, but are unlikely to decide very much, given the political imponderables and the unresolved splits between German-led belt-tighteners and French-led proponents of growth policies as the answer to Europe's travails.
(4) Finally, it has been amply demonstrated that the resistance of the host is dependent on a variety of factors which include innate variables such as genetic endowment and a multitude of imponderable variables acquired through life experiences which can be considered under the general category of "host factors".
(5) It is suggested that, while base rates are largely imponderable, the prior probabilities of individual cases are not.
(6) Notwithstanding these positive caveats, the vagaries and imponderables of the commercial world still prevail.
(7) True, society offers many kinds of assistance and support; it nevertheless is very much a matter of how the individual concerned reacts to the positive and negative influences and imponderabilities encountered.
(8) The imponderableness of the causal meaning of biographical events is demonstrated.
(9) The limit values prescribed by German drinking water regulations for "pesticides and their toxic main metabolites" (PBSM) protect the consumer from imponderable toxicological risks.
(10) "Having spoken to the complainants, Ms Levitt QC has concluded that, although there are a number of imponderables, had the police and prosecutors taken a different approach a prosecution might have been possible in relation to three of the four allegations."
(11) They really mean to say: 'he's taking on a pot or baulk imponderable here'.
(12) Why someone is prepared to is one of life’s imponderables: you can’t eat it, live in it or wear it, so by any logical measure, a work of art should be worth next to nothing.
(13) As Salazar wrote in his recent autobiography: "Running a marathon is in many ways an imponderable exercise.
(14) More severe chronic symptoms are generally required as indication for mitral valve replacement because of the additional long-term imponderabilities imposed by an implanted artificial device.
(15) This type of vaccine contains certain imponderables which argue against widespread vaccination.
(16) However, the actual survivorship attained will ultimately be determined by currently imponderable factors such as patient acceptance of longterm screening, frequency of multicentric respiratory cancers, and incidence of noncancerous smoking-related diseases, especially chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and ischemic heart disease.
(17) There are all sorts of imponderables, from the size of the dose to the timing and location of the injection to the critical issue of whether the stem cells will survive inside the body, which mean it will be years before we have any clear idea as to whether this is going to work.
(18) In spite of imponderables which affect the failure rate in the "clinical trial", a positive result was obtained on first vaccination in 85%.
(19) The biggest imponderable is perhaps whether the AfD, an anti-euro party, makes it into parliament.
Magnetism
Definition:
(n.) The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet.
(n.) The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.
(n.) Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(3) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(4) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(5) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(6) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
(7) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(8) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(9) We conclude that exposure for 20 min to a 1.5-T static magnetic field does not alter body and skin temperatures in man.
(10) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(11) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(12) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(13) In addition, a 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique was applied to investigate the in vivo energy metabolism of the graft.
(14) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(15) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(16) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.
(17) The location of the internal trans and cis isoprene units in ficaprenol-11 isolated from Ficus elastica was determined by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance.
(18) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(19) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(20) We present three patients in whom the diagnosis of intranasal meningoencephalocele was made by magnetic resonance imaging.