 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...bill of indictment, which is to be tried by the Lords. IMPENETRABILITY, iu philosophy, that quality of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. IMPERATIVE, in grammar, one of the moods of a verb, used when we would command, exhort, or advise;... | |
 | Samuel Thomas Worcester - Spellers - 1846 - 158 pages
...Hy-drom'e-ter, an instrument for measuring the weight of fluids. Im-pen-e-tra-bll'i-ty, the property that prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. In-er'ti-a (m-er'she-a), tendency to remain in the same state. Ka-lei'do-scope (ka-li'do-skop), an... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...Impenetrability. — Impenetrability is that property of matter which prevents two bodies from oecupying the same space at the same time. This is generally...penetrable on the atomic hypothesis by matter whose atoms are small enough to enter its pores, though the atom of the gold itself may be impenetrable. This impenetrability,... | |
 | Robert Fowler - 1860 - 384 pages
...terminal or odd leaflet. IMPENETRABIL'ITY (L. in, neg.; penetro, I penetrate). In Nat. Phil., That quality of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. IMPEN'NOUS (L. in, neg.; penna, wing). Wanting wings. IMPERFORATE (L. in, priv.; perforo, I bore through).... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1862 - 1134 pages
...im-pen-e-tra-bil'-e-te, a. (Lot.) The quality of being impenetrable. — In natural philosophy, that quality of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. Insusceptibility of intellectual impression. IMPENETRABLE, im-pen'-e-tra-bl, a. That cannot be penetrated... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1866 - 542 pages
...a limited portion of space. From it the body derives its figure and volume. Impenetrability is that which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. It determines a body's identity. A body, then, is any thing which has extension and impenetrability.... | |
 | William Holms Chambers Bartlett - Mechanics, Analytic - 1866 - 520 pages
...a limited portion of space. From it the body derives its figure and volume. Impenetrability is that which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. It determines a body's identity. A body, then, is any thing which has extension and impenetrability.... | |
 | Edward Richard Shaw - Physics - 1891 - 342 pages
...time. When a nail is driven into a piece of wood, the nail presses the wood aside before it can enter. That property of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time is called Impenetrability. Is impenetrability a general or a specific property of matter ? the hand.... | |
 | Edward Richard Shaw - 1901 - 342 pages
...time. When a nail is driven into a piece of wood, the nail presses the wood aside before it can enter. That property of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time is called Impenetrability. Is impenetrability a general or a specific property of matter ? • the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Annandale - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 530 pages
...the votes of two-thirds of the senate being necessary for a conviction. Impenetrability, in physics, that property of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time; or that property of matter by which it excludes all other matter from the space it occupies. Iinpen... | |
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Impenetrability is that property of matter which prevents two bodies from occupying the same space at the same time. 
