inappreciable

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Melloni showed that for a distance of 18 or 20 feet the absorption of obscure rays by the atmosphere was absolutely inappreciable.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

By the term inappreciable I mean that it is not substantially greater than one-tenth of one per cent.—i.e. not more than one-thousandth.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by Romanes, George John

The cold stage is often almost or quite inappreciable, and when this is not the fact it is in simple cases a very unimportant event.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

In mammals the ilium is directed forward, and even in the Cape ant-eater Orycteropus there is only an inappreciable production of the bone backward behind the acetabulum.

From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.

It must be recollected, that this has been restricted to minute points of inappreciable form.

From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander