adjective
definition
Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
example
We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
Examples of negligible in a Sentence
But the cost is so negligible that no one thinks much of it.
The susceptibility of air being known - practically it was negligible in these experiments - that of liquid oxygen can at once be found.
Taking the successive key-notes D, A, E, B, it is found that besides small and negligible differences, each introduces a new sharp, and so we get the five sharps, C, D, F, G, A, represented nearly by the black keys.
The high-resistance wire should, moreover, be one having a negligible change of resistance with temperature.
In the case where l is negligible we have P/dP = T/dT, which on integration shows that the osmotic pressure, as in the special case of a dilute solution, is proportional to the absolute temperature.
The chances he knew her surgeon were negligible.
Yet the wool harvest is scarce, and the production of butter a negligible quantity, though there is abundance of the principal product of Sicilian pasture lands, cheese of various kinds, for which there is a lively local demand.
It is only, however, when we deal with comparatively concentrated solutions that the heat-effect of diluting the solutions is at all great, the heat-change on diluting an already dilute solution being for most practical purposes negligible.
When the ellipsoid is so much elongated that I is negligible in relation to m'-, the expression approximates to the simpler form N=412 (log 201-I).
We may get some idea of the effect by supposing that for a short time the change in form is negligible.
Meanwhile the waves are spreading out and the value of u is falling in inverse proportion to the distance from the source, so that very soon its effect must become negligible.
Theoretically this requires an infinite plate; or a perfect heat insulator, so that the lateral flow can be prevented or rendered negligible.
In practice, the semivowels are generally negligible.
The Expansion Per Degree At Constant Pressure Is V/9 = R/P. The External Work Of Expansion Per Degree Is Equal To R, Being The Product Of The Pressure And The Expansion, And Represents The Difference Of The Specific Heats S S, At Constant Pressure And Volume, Assuming As Above That The Internal Work Of Expansion Is Negligible.
Kant's treatment of technical logic was wholly traditional, and in itself is almost negligible.
Blakey's Historical Sketch of Logic (1851), though, like all this writer's works, closing with a bibliography of some pretensions, is now negligible.
The dose of 2 to drachm contains little more than a grain of quinine, the antipyretic action of which is negligible.
And whilst their local and fugitive character must be fully recognized and allowed for, is it unjustifiable to set them aside or leave them out of account as heretical, and therefore negligible.
This reasoning tacitly supposes the orbit to be a circle of radius a, and the mass of the planet to be negligible.
However, provided maximum rate of climb is being measured the error in using a fixed schedule of equivalent airspeed and height is negligible.
Since the renal clearance of imatinib is negligible, a decrease in total body clearance is not expected in patients with renal insufficiency.
Credibility demands that the realignment be large enough to make negligible the risk of a further, early devaluation of the pound.
The purpose of a negligible value claim, to crystallize a loss from the deemed disposal, would be frustrated.
Actually, this threat was largely imaginary, or at the very least negligible.
Because the income is utterly negligible, the land is of limited value and becomes relatively inexpensive to buy.
For extragalactic sources with either negligible or highly inhomogeneous internal absorption, please provide the value for the Galactic foreground absorption.
They are white, insulating solids with negligible small electronic conductivities and the bonding is mainly ionic.
Set against this analysis, the inroads made by the development of community care seem negligible.
Thus, although the total tissue dose might be considered negligible, cells close to an alpha source receive high doses.
Meanwhile tax evasion remains rampant but prosecutions remain negligible.
The rise in average temperature between 1990 and 2050 will be 1.5 degrees Centigrade, which appears negligible.
It stated that " the numbers of people unable to receive public service broadcasting are by no means negligible " .
By 1991, exports to the EU had fallen to almost negligible levels.
The work demanded seems reducible to a virtually negligible portion of a life.
Abacavir's contribution to body fat changes is thought to be fairly negligible.
Within limits the recoil effect of rifle cartridges is pretty negligible.
However, with a count rate of counts s -1 arcsec -2 the dark count rate of the detector is generally negligible.
That some parts lack a view of the north toward the Avon valley is therefore negligible on a strategic level.
He discovered that her English property, Jeffs, was occupied by longstanding tenants who paid an almost negligible rent.
Expression was negligible in rete testis and interstitial Leydig cells, and low in epididymis.
Grass and broadleaf weed populations varied between the organic and conventional systems each year, but the impact on yield was considered negligible.
Everywhere, except in the Wisdom of Solomon, the Underworld is the old Hebrew inane abode of all the dead, and therefore a negligible quantity for the moralist.
If we regard the thermal effect at each junction as a measure of the potential-difference there, as the total thermal effect in the cell undoubtedly is of the sum of its potentialdifferences, in cases where the temperature coefficient is negligible, the heat evolved on solution of a metal should give the electrical potential-difference at its surface.
And subsequent variations seem to have been of a negligible where not of an eclectic character.
Hence X =4gp(h, 2 +h 2 2) - T{I - 2(sin a i +sin a2)}, or, substituting the values of h 1 and h2, I T2 X = - 2 (cos a, +cos a2)2 2 pga - T { I - z (sin a l +sin a 2) - T12 (cos a t +cos a 2) (cot a t +cot a 2) } the remaining terms being negligible when a is small.
We also present a system designed to operate in real-time with negligible search error. [42] S. Renals and Y. Gotoh.
The difference between "Murphy" and "Murfee" is negligible for cats because how often exactly will a pet owner expect to see his cat's name written anywhere except on a customized feeding dish or a vet bill?
Some prescription medications are available to treat specific symptoms of heart failure, but such drugs are not free from side effects, and many pose risks that are hardly negligible.
While substituting Ciroc is negligible in terms of taste, using cognac or brandy will result in a very different taste to the drink.
The amount of land needed is negligible since residential units can be installed on roofs.