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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, a. [Pref. im- not + ponderable: cf F. impond['e]rable.] Not ponderable; without sensible or appreciable weight; incapable of being weighed. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Imponderable \Im*pon"der*a*ble\, n. (Physics) 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: imponderable adj : difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision; "such imponderable human factors as aesthetic sensibility" [ant: {ponderable}] n : a factor whose effects cannot be accurately assessed: "human behavior depends on many imponderables"
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