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inestimable
Of immeasurable value or worth; invaluable:
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  1. Of immeasurable value or worth; invaluable:
  2. That cannot be estimated or measured; esp., too great or valuable to be properly measured or appreciated; invaluable
  3. Impossible to estimate or compute:
incalculable
That cannot be calculated; too great or too many to be counted
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  1. That cannot be calculated; too great or too many to be counted
  2. Impossible to foresee; unpredictable:
  3. Too great to be calculated or reckoned:
indeterminable
That cannot be decided or settled
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  1. That cannot be decided or settled
  2. Impossible to settle or decide with finality:
  3. Impossible to fix or measure:
impalpable
Not perceptible to the touch; intangible.
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  1. Not perceptible to the touch; intangible.
  2. Difficult to perceive or grasp by the mind.
  3. That cannot be felt by touching
imperceptible
Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses:
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  1. Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses:
  2. So subtle, slight, or gradual as to be barely perceptible:
inappreciable
Too small to be noticed or make a significant difference; negligible:
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  1. Too small to be noticed or make a significant difference; negligible:
  2. Insignificant, undetectable, not able to be noticed
  3. Too small or insignificant to be observed or have any value; negligible
indiscernible
Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived.
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  1. Not capable of being discerned, of being perceived.
  2. That cannot be discerned; imperceptible
  3. Difficult or impossible to discern or perceive; imperceptible:
indistinguishable
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
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  1. Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct
  2. That cannot be discerned or recognized; imperceptible
  3. Impossible to discern; imperceptible:
insensible
Having lost sensation; unconscious
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  1. Having lost sensation; unconscious
  2. Not intelligible; without meaning
  3. Having lost consciousness, especially temporarily; unconscious:
intangible
Incapable of being realized or defined.
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  1. Incapable of being realized or defined.
  2. Designating or of any of certain business assets, esp. goodwill, that have no material being but have monetary value
  3. That cannot be easily defined, formulated, or grasped; vague
invisible
Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
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  1. Not easily noticed or detected; inconspicuous:
  2. Not visible; that cannot be seen
  3. Impossible to see; not visible:
unnoticeable
Not readily noticeable.
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  1. Not readily noticeable.
  2. Not noticeable
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  • In the eyes of a Chinese connoisseur, no blue-and-white porcelain worthy of consideration exists, or ever has existed, except the kai-pien-yao, with its imponderable pdle, its wax-like surface, and its rich, glowing blue, entirely free from superficiality or garishness and broken into a thousand tints by the microscopic crackle of the glaze.

  • Gauss had shown how to reduce all the phenomena of statical electricity to mere attractions and repulsions exerted at a distance by particles of an imponderable on one another.

  • He not only agrees with Laplace and Lyell about the evolution of the solar system, but also supposes that the affinities, pointed out by Lothar Meyer and Mendeleeff, between groups of chemical elements prove an evolution of these elements from a primitive matter (prothyl) consisting of homogeneous atoms. These, however, are not ultimate enough for him; he thinks that everything, ponderable and imponderable or ether, is evolved from a primitive substance, which condenses first into centres of condensation (pyknatoms), and then into masses, which when they exceed the mean consistency become ponderables, and when they fall below it become imponderables.

  • Regarding heat (matiere de feu or fluide igne) as a peculiar kind of imponderable matter, Lavoisier held that the three states of aggregation - solid, liquid and gas - were modes of matter, each depending on the amount of matiere de feu with which the ponderable substances concerned were interpenetrated and combined; and this view enabled him correctly to anticipate that gases would be reduced to liquids and solids by the influence of cold and pressure.

  • de C. du Fay on the conductivity of some bodies for the electric agency and the dual character of electrification gave rise to the first notions of ., electricity as an imponderable fluid, or non-gravitative subtile matter, of a more refined and penetrating kind than ordinary liquids and gases.

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