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discountably en · ADV

Etymology

From discountable + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Such that it can be discounted or ignored.
    • However, the number of microstates in which the excess of molecules in one bulb over the number in the other bulb is sufficient to permit the measurement of a pressure difference is a quite discountably small fraction of the total number of microstates. 1989, H. E. Avery, D. John Shaw, Physical Chemistry, page 33: