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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
intangible
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
asset
▪ The factors which, if present, indicate the transfer as a going concern largely relate to intangible assets.
▪ Castle now carries audio copyrights under intangible assets at directors' valuation instead of at cost less amortisation.
▪ The group's total intangible assets come to £13.922m, and total fixed and current assets to £24.869m.
▪ The bank's accounts have just revealed that its intangible assets have shrunk alarmingly.
▪ After a tortuous argument, the standard-setters agreed to let banks value and disclose their intangible assets in their balance sheets as well.
▪ The problem lies in how intangible assets are defined and valued.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Customer goodwill is an important intangible asset of any business.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intangible

Intangible \In*tan"gi*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + tangible: cf. F. intangible.] Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
--Bp. Wilkins.

A corporation is an artificial, invisible, intangible being.
--Marshall. -- In*tan"gi*ble*ness, n. -- In*tan"gi*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
intangible

1630s, "incapable of being touched," from French intangible (c.1500) or directly from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + Late Latin tangibilis "that may be touched" (see tangible). Figurative sense of "that cannot be grasped by the mind" is from 1880. Noun meaning "anything intangible" is from 1914. Related: Intangibly.

Wiktionary
intangible

a. incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal n. 1 Anything intangible 2 (context legal English) Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes

WordNet
intangible
  1. adj. (of especially business assets) not having physical substance or intrinsic productive value; "intangible assets such as good will" [ant: tangible]

  2. incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch; "the intangible constituent of energy"- James Jeans [syn: impalpable] [ant: tangible]

  3. hard to pin down or identify; "an intangible feeling of impending disaster"

  4. lacking substance or reality; incapable of being touched or seen; "that intangible thing--the soul" [syn: nonphysical]

intangible

n. assets that are saleable though not material or physical [syn: intangible asset]

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Usage examples of "intangible".

While weighing the various intangibles and unpredictables, Bade received a report from General Rast.

The moving, intangible shapes and lights returned to pursue their own mysterious, bewildering paths, the sounds became again the rising and falling of a senseless chorus.

The intangible wisps of the Pipistrelles loomed large in the displays.

The all-out firefight, the blown-out wall, now that heavy silence, and something intangible and indefinably wrong, in a way the city had never been wrong before, in all the years Rasche had lived there.

Sometimes, in the instants when the pull slackened, he had time to feel a third force struggling here between that black, blind downward suck that dragged at him and his own sick, frantic effort to fight clear, a third force- that was weakening the black drag so that he had moments of lucidity when he stood free on the brink of the ocean and felt the sweat roll down his face and was aware of his laboring heart and how gaspingly breath tortured his lungs, and he knew he was fighting with every atom of himself, body and mind and soul, against the intangible blackness sucking him down.

Kabbalah teaches that this sharing permeates the natural world-in physical things such as apples and airplanes, as well as in intangibles such as affection, loyalty, and kindness.

He had wielded love, the one invincible weapon of the whole earth, and had conquered his intangible and dreadful enemy.

The principle of apportionment is, moreover, applicable to the intangible property of a company engaged in both interstate and local commerce, as well as to its tangible property.

Paris, at the Seminaire of Madame Rocheforte, bringing us to 1877, the intangible present, a mere cobweb dividing as it does our past, as it silently recedes from our winged future.

The miracles of Bethabara were very far away now from another lifetime, and so intangible, he often doubted their reality.

New England knows, if one came here as many a lonely youth had come here in the past, some boy from the inland immensity of America, some homesick lad from the South, from the marvellous hills of Old Catawba, he might be pierced again by the bitter ecstasy of youth, the ecstasy that tears him apart with a cry that has no tongue, the ecstasy that is proud, lonely, and exultant, that is fierce with joy and a moment, that the intangible cannot be touched, the ungraspable cannot be grasped--the imperial and magnificent minute is gone for ever which, with all its promises, its million intuitions, he wishes to clothe with the living substance of beauty.

The intangible quality of a true warrior, the sixth sense that allows him to sense unseen danger, had come into play.

He did not add what he knew somberly to be a fact, that the enemy would go elsewhere, to some other planet not protected by a Lensman able to perceive the intangible structure of a sphere of force.

This labor is immaterial, even if it is corporeal and affective, in the sense that its products are intangible, a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction, excitement, or passion.

When one warred with the intangible, convolutions were certain to abound.