APPRECIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appreciable mean? 

• APPRECIABLE (adjective)
  The adjective APPRECIABLE has 1 sense:

1. enough to be estimated or measured

  Familiarity information: APPRECIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPRECIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enough to be estimated or measured

Context example:

appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor

Similar:

considerable (large or relatively large in number or amount or extent or degree)

 Context examples 

Individuals who never tan and always sunburn if exposed to any appreciable amount of sunlight, primarily red headed individuals and lightly complected blondes.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type I, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Mixing of solids into liquid, without appreciable size reduction, to form a stable suspension.

(Low Shear Mixing, NCI Thesaurus)

And yet we have surely made some appreciable progress.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are not changing your space or redoing it in any appreciable way, you may be focused on your children or parents instead.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An appreciable frequency of somatic MLH3 mutations in MSI-H tumors is consistent with a possible role for this gene in the progression of colorectal cancer tumorigenesis.

(DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MLH3, NCI Thesaurus)

An appreciable pause fell after I had closed the doors and drawn the slide, a pause that must have lasted fully a minute.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I do not hesitate to say that the disappearance of Professor Summerlee and myself would have left an appreciable gap in modern zoological history.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Non-synonymous Coding SNP consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a protein-coding region of a gene that causes an alteration of the translation of the affected codon into a different amino acid in the protein product.

(Non-synonymous Coding SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intronic Sequences (Intronic SNP) consists of a variation at an appreciable frequency between individuals of a single interbreeding population of a single nucleotide, due to base substitution, at an equivalent location within a transcribed non-coding intervening DNA sequence separating protein-coding sequences (exons) in an eukaryotic nuclear gene.

(Intronic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

Finally, an analysis has shown that the remains of his supper left by the stable-lad contain an appreciable quantity of powdered opium, while the people at the house partook of the same dish on the same night without any ill effect.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)