inappreciable

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Each ballonet is theoretically proof against leakage--in practice there is an almost inappreciable porosity, which hardly counts for a comparatively short period, say a month.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

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

Alike to those who seem to be above it as to those who are evidently below, such work must remain always inappreciable and inexplicable.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

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

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.