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APPRECIABLE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enough to be estimated or measured

Example:

appreciable amounts of noxious wastes are dumped into the harbor

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Adjectives

Similar:

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

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 Context examples: 

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in Intergenic Sequences 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 DNA sequence of genetic material that lies between the boundaries of adjacent genes.

(Intergenic SNP, NCI Thesaurus)

So far as climate goes, it was immaterial what time we chose for our expedition, as the temperature ranges from seventy-five to ninety degrees both summer and winter, with no appreciable difference in heat.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)