negligible
/ˈnɛɡlɪdʒɪb(ə)l
/adjective
So small or unimportant as to be not worth considering; insignificant: he said that the risks were negligible...
- The Licence Committee's view is that this could not be considered negligible.
- Some consider this of negligible importance, but sound evidence exists to the contrary.
- Any error introduced while measuring the width of strips a d is considered negligible.
Derivatives
negligibility
/ noun ...- Yesterday, the Nader effect faded to negligibility.
- Now that he's going, expect to read a deluge of diatribes by print journalists either lauding the awesome might of the people or shakily insisting on the ultimate negligibility of the medium.
- These relations are parametered by fuzzy sets which provide a semantics for the notions of negligibility and closeness.
negligibly
- The scheme is quite straightforward in the case of the failure of individual, small banks - that is, banks that are a negligibly small component of the banking system overall.
- The researchers say that a shell of plasmonic material will scatter light negligibly if the light's frequency is close to the resonant frequency of the plasmons.
- Almost two years after its founding, the Afghan national government is only negligibly present in most of the nation, if at all.
Origin
Early 19th century: from obsolete French, from négliger 'to neglect'.