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‖ quantité négligeable|kɑ̃tite negliʒabl|
[Fr., lit. ‘negligible quantity’.]
A factor of no account, something insignificant.
1886T. P. White Ordnance Survey U.K. vi. 98 It is certain that among the details which would not be a quantité négligeable, would figure the trees of any particular district or country. 1913S. Shaw William of Germany viii. 151 The resolve that as Emperor he would not allow Germany to be overlooked, to be treated as a quantité négligeable, in the discussion or decision of international affairs. 1921Baron von Margutti Emp. Francis Joseph & his Times viii. 205 The old Sovereign apparently still regarded the Slavs as a quantité négligeable, as they had been at the beginning of his reign. 1973E. Osers tr. Waldheim's Austrian Example 7 The geopolitical position of Austria within the contact zone or testing ground of the great ideological power-groups of our time has given this small country a meaning that is far from that of a quantité négligeable. |