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substantial
Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast
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  1. Large in size, quantity, or value; as, a substantial amount of money; vast
  2. Ample; sustaining:
  3. Solidly built; strong:
weighty
Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
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  1. Having much weight; very heavy; ponderous
  2. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
  3. Of great consequence; serious or momentous:
massive
(Mineralogy) Irregular in form, though occasionally crystalline in internal structure
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  1. (Mineralogy) Irregular in form, though occasionally crystalline in internal structure
  2. (--- Geology) Without internal structure or layers and homogeneous in composition. Used of a rock.
  3. Consisting of or making up a large mass; bulky, heavy, and solid:
appreciable
Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
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  1. Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
  2. Enough to be perceived or estimated; noticeable; measurable
  3. Possible to estimate, measure, or perceive:
detectable
That which can be detected, noticeable.
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  1. That which can be detected, noticeable.
discernible
Perceptible, as by vision or the intellect.
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  1. Perceptible, as by vision or the intellect.
observable
A measurable property of a physical system, such as mass or momentum. In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to mathematical operators used in the calculation of measurable quantities. Operators that do not commute , having a nonzero commutator , correspond to observables that cannot be precisely measured at the same time, such as momentum and position.
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  1. A measurable property of a physical system, such as mass or momentum. In quantum mechanics, observables correspond to mathematical operators used in the calculation of measurable quantities. Operators that do not commute , having a nonzero commutator , correspond to observables that cannot be precisely measured at the same time, such as momentum and position.
  2. Possible to observe:
  3. That can be observed; visible; discernible; noticeable
palpable
Clear to the mind; obvious; evident; plain
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  1. Clear to the mind; obvious; evident; plain
  2. Capable of being handled, touched, or felt; tangible:
  3. Easily perceived by the senses; audible, recognizable, perceptible, noticeable, etc.
perceptible
Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind:
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  1. Capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind:
  2. That can be perceived
  3. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
sensible
Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
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  1. Having appreciation or understanding; emotionally or intellectually aware
  2. Acting with or exhibiting good judgment; reasonable:
  3. Easily perceived or noticed; marked; striking; appreciable
Find another word for ponderable. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ponderable, like: substantial, weighty, massive, heavy, appreciable, detectable, discernible, distinguishable, noticeable, observable and palpable.

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  • ponderable matter (which in part subsists in the ether ).

  • 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.

  • For instance, in the history of mechanics it was first inferred from some that all terrestrial bodies gravitate, and then from these as some that all ponderable bodies, terrestrial and celestial, gravitate.

  • 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.

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