appreciable

From French appréciable.

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɹiːʃəbl/

appreciable (comparative more appreciable, superlative most appreciable)

1. Large enough to be estimated; perceptible; considerable.
   • 1865, Charles Dickens, chapter 15, in Our Mutual Friend:

     A grain of musk will scent a drawer for many years, and still lose nothing appreciable of its original weight.

   • 1915, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 1, in Something New:

     For an appreciable time he did not think of rising from his seat.

   • 2002, John J. Mearsheimer, "Realism, the Real World, and the Academy," in Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies (M. Brecher and F. P. Harvey, eds.), →ISBN, p. 27:

     If NEAsia were a zone of peace, those American forces would be unnecessary and they could be sent home and demobilized, saving the U.S. taxpayer an appreciable sum of money.

• appreciable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.