inappreciable

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The slight, and to unaccustomed ears almost inappreciable, shades of aspiration and accentuation, are the main difficulty in the way of foreigners desirous of learning the Chinese language.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von

In certain ways it was clearly an advantage to a playwright to be able to produce a large number of scenes, varying in length according to his pleasure, and separated by almost inappreciable intervals.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Bradley, Andrew Cecil

When this ventilation is secured, the proportion of dangerous gas in the pipes becomes very small, and the amount absorbed by the water in traps is almost inappreciable.

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

My meaning is that the time which elapsed between seeing the flash and hearing the report was inappreciable to me.

From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Whymper, Edward

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