weighable

Example Sentences

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But since grit isn’t weighable, McCormick made the case that Connelly wasn’t going to become unhinged in his next-to-last group Sunday pairing for the Open Championship with U.S.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 24, 2017

By August 1942, the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago had isolated a weighable amount.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 'fictitious,' as we have seen, he means not 'unreal' but simply not tangible, weighable, or measurable—like sticks and stones, or like pains and pleasures.

From The English Utilitarians, Volume I. by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

It is, however, difficult to believe that the small amount of lead vapourised carries with it a weighable amount of silver.

From A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. by Beringer, Cornelius

In this respect, too, we showed that laxity in proving what we wanted to prove which abounds everywhere from the point where calculation with things weighable and measurable leaves off, and judgment begins.

From The New Society by Windham, Arthur