noun
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An imponderable substance or body; specifically, in the plural, a name formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism.
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An imponderable question.
Examples of imponderables in a Sentence
In the case of faults reception, there are seasonal variations and other imponderables, so a greater element of flexibility is needed.
So what can a conservation body like the Woodland Trust do in the face of such imponderables?
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.
He supposes that aesthesis and tropesis, as rudimentary sensation and will, are the very causes of condensation; that they belong to pyknatoms, to ponderables and imponderables, to chemical atoms and molecules.