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41imponderable — adjective Etymology: Medieval Latin imponderabilis, from Latin in + Late Latin ponderabilis ponderable Date: 1794 not ponderable ; incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness < the imponderable beauties of Beethoven s…sonatas Cecelia… …
42Luminiferous aether — The luminiferous aether: it was hypothesised that the Earth moves through a medium of aether that carries light In the late 19th century, luminiferous aether or ether, meaning light bearing aether, was the term used to describe a medium for the… …
43Warp drive — is a form of faster than light propulsion in the fictional universe of Star Trek, capable of propelling spacecraft or objects to many multiples of the speed of light but avoiding the problems of time dilation. It is also featured in several… …
44Michelson–Morley experiment — Box plots based on data from the Michelson–Morley experiment The Michelson–Morley experiment was performed in 1887 by Albert Michelson and Edward Morley at what is now Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Its results are generally… …
45Hendrik Antoon Lorentz — Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, gemalt von Menso Kamerlingh Onnes Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (* 18. Juli 1853 in Arnheim; † 4. Februar 1928 in Haarlem) war ein niederländischer …
46Äther (Physik) — Einige Äthervorstellungen implizieren einen jahreszeitlich wechselnden Ätherwind Der Äther (griech. αἰθήρ [„aithär“] für der (blaue) Himmel) ist eine Substanz, die im ausgehenden 17. Jahrhundert als Medium für die Ausbreitung von Licht postuliert …
47Materĭe — (lat. materia), im allgemeinen gleichbedeutend mit Stoff, also im Gegensatz zur Form zunächst das Sachliche, Gegenständliche, der Inhalt im Unterschiede von der Art und Weise der Erscheinung, Gestaltung, Behandlung. In der Naturwissenschaft alles …
48culture — /kul cheuhr/, n., v., cultured, culturing. n. 1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. 2. that which is excellent in the arts, manners,… …
49imponderable — imponderability, imponderableness, n. imponderably, adv. /im pon deuhr euh beuhl/, adj. 1. not ponderable; that cannot be precisely determined, measured, or evaluated. n. 2. an imponderable thing, force, agency, etc. [1785 95; < ML imponderabilis …
50appreciable — I adjective appraisable, ascertainable, assessable, calculable, capable of being perceived, cognizable, computable, concrete, considerable, conspicuous, countable, detectable, determinable, discernible, discoverable, distinguishable, estimable,… …
