adjective
- Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch.
- usage: "skin with a tangible roughness"
- synonyms: touchable
- Capable of being treated as fact.
- usage: "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor"
- synonyms: real
- Of especially business assets. ( having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value )
- usage: "tangible property like real estate"; "tangible assets such as machinery"
- Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt.
- usage: "a barely palpable dust"; "felt sudden anger in a palpable wave"; "the air was warm and close-palpable as cotton"; "a palpable lie"
- synonyms: palpable
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