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

The instant would have been inappreciable to measures of time.

From The Way of the Gods by Long, John Luther

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

How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?

From Dickens As an Educator by Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin)

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.