What is "appreciable"

Usage examples of "appreciable".

The biggest dump truck in operation back then had a capacity of five cubic yards, so it would have taken way too long, especially if he ferried the load any appreciable distance.

But rapid German advance will probably prevent any appreciable British Imperial forces from being engaged.

Egypt within a few weeks a long-range bomber force capable of having any appreciable effect on Tripoli.

While these operations threw a heavy strain on the crews, their necessarily small scale could not have any appreciable effect.

October 25 the operation so greatly desired by both Australian parties was attempted under conditions of great danger, and not without appreciable loss.

One can read a letter at midnight, and the moonlight makes no appreciable difference.

Toby yielded an appreciable dosage of hydrocyanic acid, some undigested chocolate cream and enough silver foil for the forensic laboratory to decipher the letters RDAM on it.

In the case of clay soils, I have no hesitation to say the manure may be spread even six months before it is plowed in, without losing any appreciable quantity in manuring matter.

Carey does not take into account the fact that the total amount of breadstuffs exported from any country must be an exceedingly small fraction of the whole amount taken from the soil, and scarcely appreciable as a source of manure, even if it were practically utilized in that way.

Debbie Anne trailed behind her, sniveling more quietly but with no appreciable lessening of drippage from her raw red nose.

The broad cold marble floor, the simple couch, the air freshly waving through a shady chamber, a verse of the Koran emblazoned on the wall, the sight and the sound of falling water, the cold fragrant smoke of the NARGHILE, and a small collection of wives and children in the inner apartments - these, the utmost enjoyments of the grandee, are yet such as to be appreciable by the humblest Mussulman in the empire.

There were even those among the bystanders ready to swear that Leucon had continued pleading for his life and offering his services free for some appreciable time before he toppled over and his head jumped away.

Christmas, Chefpublizist Willi returned from his advance run, to report that he had booked tobers in every appreciable community to the northeastward, clear to Regensburg, and had engaged a team to start posting paper in Freising, the first stop on the route.

There is no paleoecologic evidence that any of the Morrison dinosaurs spent appreciable time in water.

The best known of their broadcasts, indeed the only ones that can be said to have been listened to to any appreciable extent, are those of William Joyce.