Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Estimated or ascertained by weight, as distinguished from
numeral or monetary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished from
numeral .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
weight .
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Examples
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Dombrowski MP, Berry SM, Johnson MP, Saleh AA, Sokol RJ: Birth weight/length ratio, ponderal index, placental weight, and birth weight/placental ratios in a large population.
Prenatal Diagnosis 2010
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Referring to the physician's biographical chart, I advise that once a year the following measurements be taken: Circumference of the head; the two greater diameters of the head; the circumference of the chest; and the cephalic, ponderal, and stature indices.
The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912
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Twelve of these denarii made a solidus, or shilling, the twentieth part of the ponderal and numeral livre, or pound of silver, which has been so strangely reduced in modern France.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Determinants of early ponderal and statural growth in full-term infants in the EDEN mother-child cohort study,
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue Regnault 2010
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Le surplus ponderal est associe a l'hyperlipidemie l'hypertension, la maladie cardiovasculaire et cerebrovasculaire
Recently Uploaded Slideshows medif 2009
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Twelve of these denarii made a solidus, or shilling, the twentieth part of the ponderal and numeral livre, or pound of silver, which has been so strangely reduced in modern France.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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