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ponderal, a.|ˈpɒndərəl|
[f. L. pondus, ponder- weight + -al1: cf. L. ponderāle place where weights were kept, in origin neuter of an adj. *ponderālis; also mod.F. pondéral relating to weight (a neologism in Littré).]
Of or pertaining to weight; determined or estimated by weight.
1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 89 Whether by confounding the Attick and Roman Sextaries, or the Pounds Mensural or Ponderal,..I know not. 1705Arbuthnot On Coins (1727) 20 Thus did the money Drachma in process of time decrease: but all the while we may suppose the ponderal Drachma to have continued the same. 1880E. Cleminshaw Wurtz' Atom. The. 322 The atomic weights..only express ponderal relations. |