Something ponderable from the outer world--something of which we can say that its weight is so and so. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We will return to the propagation of light in ponderable matter. From Wordnik.com. [Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
At the same time, a start was made on a general theory which ascribed all electromagnetic processes taking place in ponderable substances to electrons. From Wordnik.com. [Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
One could never get a clear picture of the interior forces governing the ether, nor of the forces acting between the ether and the "ponderable" matter. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of My Later Years]
Regarded thus, the three ponderable conditions form what. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Everywhere (including the interior of ponderable bodies). From Wordnik.com. [Out Of My Later Years]
Science looks on heat simply as a condition of ponderable matter. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The I.W. W. seeks for verities and for concrete, ponderable power. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Conspiracy] Reference
Philosophy starts with questions that lie at the edge of the ponderable. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Help Prescription: A Double Dose of Culture] Reference
According to this view, some force keeps it there, yet it is not ponderable. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
There are forces outside military power more visible and ponderable than these. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
The body is the ponderable, material, terrestrial thing, endowed with a shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry] Reference
Thus, in a regular rhythm, the air comes near the border of its ponderable existence. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In this figure the shaded part represents the imponderable, the black part the ponderable entity. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Contra-Levitatem maxim, it was impossible to conceive of substance except as ponderable substance. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
I shall have very little to say about ponderable matter, but so much the more about ether and electrons. From Wordnik.com. [Hendrik A. Lorentz - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The inconceivable quantum world undescribed by physics, or the ponderable world we encounter with our senses?. From Wordnik.com. [Plato, Goedel, Herbert Marcuse and N.O. Brown] Reference
In this latter state we find ponderable matter so far brought under the sway of levity that its behaviour is of. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Her aim was to examine the behaviour of matter on the way to and beyond the boundary of its ponderable existence. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
But we are living in an extraordinary time, when to perform your public duty asks a ponderable strength of heart. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: The Day the Laws Came Back] Reference
Such a medium could convey no mechanical force from the sun, and therefore the medium of space cannot be ponderable. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
But we have no right to base our calculations on its resistance, by the analogies presented by ponderable or atomic matter. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference
As if he had died in some way years ago and was ever after some other being who had no history, who had no ponderable life to come. ''. From Wordnik.com. [Brightening Western Star] Reference
Light is ponderable by its heat, which, by penetrating bodies, increases their volume; and certainly electricity is only too tangible. From Wordnik.com. [Ursula] Reference
The point at issue was just that: the Italian Neutralists stood for material advantages, advantages tangible, ponderable, palpable; the. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
And does he not know that it changes its course whenever it passes from a vacuum into any ponderable medium or in the opposite direction?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
In other words, where does nature show levity concentrated in a limited part of space - that is, in a condition characteristic of ponderable matter?. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
In the case of sulphur, the ponderable and imponderable entities appear to cling together; in the case of phosphorus, they seem to be anxious to part. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The fact that the existence of this state of ponderable matter was quite unknown up to such a relatively recent date has been completely forgotten to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Through this process matter is carried in the upward direction towards ever less ponderable conditions, and finally into the formless state of pure 'chaos'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Davy's researches which they had undertaken to prove that heat is not, as it was for a time believed to be, a ponderable substance, but an imponderable agent. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Far from being an accumulation of ponderable matter in a state of extremely high temperature, as science supposes, the sun represents the very opposite of ponderability. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
He was silent for still another ponderable space of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Mother] Reference
All things are not coloured, or ponderable, or even extended; but all things are numerable. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
This work was on the motion of ponderable (material) particles in electric and magnetic fields. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This work was on the behavior of moving ponderable (material) particles in electric and magnetic fields. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Earlier work of Lorentz was on the behavior of moving material (ponderable) particles in electric and magnetic fields. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
If the aether have a boundary, masses of ponderable matter might be conceived to exist beyond it, but they could emit no light. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Earlier work (in the 1890s) of Lorentz was on the behavior of moving ponderable (material) particles in electric and magnetic fields. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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