Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word NEGLIGIBLE

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Definitions of NEGLIGIBLE

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

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Examples of Using NEGLIGIBLE in a Sentence

• The meaning of "negligible" depends on the mathematical context; for instance, it can mean finite, countable, or null.
• For artificial satellites and small natural objects, the mass of the object makes a negligible contribution to the combined mass, and so is often ignored.
• If quantum effects are negligible, an accelerating charged particle radiates power as described by the Larmor formula and its relativistic generalization.
• More precisely, the electric potential is the energy per unit charge for a test charge that is so small that the disturbance of the field under consideration is negligible.
• Kidney beans, cooked by boiling, are 67% water, 23% carbohydrates, 9% protein, and contain negligible fat.
• An 8-bit cipher has negligible cryptographic security, so the Pearson hash function is not cryptographically strong, but it is useful for implementing hash tables or as a data integrity check code, for which purposes it offers these benefits:.
• South Oroville contains a negligible number of businesses, and all residents are dependent on the commercial centers of Oroville, and sometimes Chico if they choose.
• In practice, to infer the risk-free interest rate in a particular currency, market participants often choose the yield to maturity on a risk-free bond issued by a government of the same currency whose risks of default are so low as to be negligible.
• The amount of crime in Benson is negligible when compared with the nearby communities of Orwell and Shoreham who respectively ranked second and tenth in recidivism and repeat offenders as of 2012.
• The 1934 discovery that calorie restriction can extend lifespans by 50% in rats, the existence of species having negligible senescence, and the existence of potentially immortal organisms such as members of the genus Hydra have motivated research into delaying senescence and thus age-related diseases.
• Electromagnetic fields and forces can be described well by classical electrodynamics at length scales and field strengths large enough that quantum mechanical effects are negligible.
• The Fermi–Dirac distribution is only valid if the number of fermions in the system is large enough so that adding one more fermion to the system has negligible effect on.
• Large body size is generally associated with other traits, such as having a slow rate of reproduction and, in large herbivores, reduced or negligible adult mortality from being killed by predators.
• However, the residual entropy is often quite negligible and can be accounted for when it occurs using statistical mechanics.
• While the probability that a UUID will be duplicated is not zero, it is generally considered close enough to zero to be negligible.
• To make the introductory paragraph precise, then, let X be N, and let the negligible sets be the finite sets.
• Thanks to this, estimating the error has little or negligible computational cost compared to a step with the higher-order method.
• In the mathematical field of general topology, a meagre set (also called a meager set or a set of first category) is a subset of a topological space that is small or negligible in a precise sense detailed below.
• Significant stress may exist even when deformation is negligible or non-existent (a common assumption when modeling the flow of water).
• In small enough regions of spacetime where gravitational variances are negligible, physical laws are Lorentz invariant in the same manner as special relativity.
• The small horizontal-axis propeller directly driven by the engine was purely to provide the necessary airflow to cool the engine during low speed or hovering flight and provided negligible forward thrust.
• Rat snakes were long believed to be completely nonvenomous, but recent studies have shown that some Old World species do possess small amounts of venom, though the amount is negligible relative to humans.
• For very slow motion of the fluid, the inertia forces of the fluid are negligible (assumption of massless fluid) in comparison to other forces.
• This study was replicated in a 2020 study which looked at 10 additional birth cohorts, and found a negligible impact.
• The curve is generally nonlinear, but it can (by use of a Taylor series) be approximated as linear for sufficiently small deformations (in which higher-order terms are negligible).

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