(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.
Ponderable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(2) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(3) For Argyle the result confirmed their relegation to League One, with the rival fans left to ponder wildly differing prospects next season.
(4) The results indicated significant negative correlations between maternal plasma zinc and albumin-bound zinc concentrations and plasma copper concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and mid-arm circumference and ponderal index.
(5) A comparison of outcome was made between infants whose birth-weight for gestational age was below the tenth percentile and infants who had a low ponderal index from 37 weeks' gestation.
(6) Some epidemiological data have been collected, among which: the importance of ponderal overload in patients studied and the prevalence of the right joints diseases on the left one's.
(7) Nor do most of its users – as they check out the capital of Georgia or guiltily plagiarise the entry on Marx – ponder how this Eden is sustained in its spotless state of nature.
(8) Sting – a man who had split the Police to pursue a more adult-oriented career, and who would in the following year ponder such poptastic issues as how much Russians loved their children and the plight of miners – took that job in 1984, while this year it falls to Guy Garvey, who may as well just change his middle name to 6Music.
(9) The air was sampled daily by glass fiber's filters; a ponderal determination of total particulate was made; PAH was dosed by gas-chromatography and by mass spectrometry, metals was determined by atomic absorption spectrometry.
(10) In these six pairs a normal ponderal index in the lighter twin members was associated with poorer growth than a low ponderal index.
(11) The ponderal quantity of 140 S antigens and their peptide distribution are controlled in concentrated virulent and inactivated preparations proir to their being transformed into vaccines.
(12) There was still time for Saborio to try an audacious lob from distance to steal the game, but Nielsen, who'd looked ponderous in his movements all game, was able to watch this one safely over.
(13) Objective identification of infants with significant intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) was done using the ponderal index (PI).
(14) Plasma lipid levels were significantly lower when the animals received the diets containing milk instead of the diet without milk: cholesterol, triacylglycerol, and LDL-cholesterol were reduced by 5.6, 5.8 and 10% respectively (pondered means) while HDL-cholesterol remained unaffected.
(15) I pondered the scene once or twice last week, with the news dominated by Lord Rennard and ongoing allegations of his having groped women .
(16) The mean fetal ponderal index of the controls was 8.60 (SD 0.84) and in the risk group 7.72.
(17) Correlation analysis revealed that longer average initial fixation time was associated with male sex, shorter birth length, and larger ponderal index.
(18) Manning and Snowden cannot have been the only US officials to have pondered blowing a whistle on data abuse.
(19) Ponder this as you take in mountain views through floor-to-ceiling windows or from the secluded patio.
(20) At birth, 14 normal babies had average ponderal indices, 14 were overweight for length (high ponderal index), 18 were underweight for length (low ponderal index), and 15 had short crown-heel lengths for dates and normal ponderal indices.