Negligible Definition

nĕglĭ-jə-bəl
adjective
Not significant or important enough to be worth considering; trifling.
American Heritage
That can be neglected or disregarded because small, unimportant, etc.; trifling.
Webster's New World

Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
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Origin of Negligible

  • Latin neglegere, negligere to neglect neglect –ible

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Negligible Sentence Examples

  • But the cost is so negligible that no one thinks much of it.

  • The susceptibility of air being known - practically it was negligible in these experiments - that of liquid oxygen can at once be found.

  • Taking the successive key-notes D, A, E, B, it is found that besides small and negligible differences, each introduces a new sharp, and so we get the five sharps, C, D, F, G, A, represented nearly by the black keys.

  • The high-resistance wire should, moreover, be one having a negligible change of resistance with temperature.

  • In the case where l is negligible we have P/dP = T/dT, which on integration shows that the osmotic pressure, as in the special case of a dilute solution, is proportional to the absolute temperature.

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