ponderable

Definition

Having a detectable amount of matter; having a measurable mass.

Etymology

From ponder + -able.

Example Sentences

• "[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."
• "The very mother's head you swore by in the dock is a heavier head, crowned with ponderable hair."

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