tangible meaning
Meaning
Mobile
- Adjective: tangible tanjubul
- Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch
"skin with a tangible roughness"
- touchable - Capable of being treated as fact
"tangible evidence"
- real - (of especially business assets) having physical substance and intrinsic monetary value
"tangible property like real estate"; "tangible assets such as machinery" - Capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt
- palpable
See also: concrete, perceptible, real, realisable [Brit], realizable, tactile, tactual, tangibleness, tangibly
Antonym: intangible
Encyclopedia: Tangible
- Perceptible by the senses especially the sense of touch
[Business]
adjective, noun■ adjective [usually before noun]
1
that can be clearly seen to exist:
These figures provide tangible proof that the economy is recovering.
We want tangible results.
tangible benefits/effects/improvements/progress/results tangible evidence/proof/signs
2
that you can touch and feel:
Prices of tangible goods are rising faster than services.
OPP INTANGIBLE
tangibly // adverb:
Employees who were responsible for the growth of the business have been tangibly rewarded.
■ noun
1 [C]
a thing that exists physically and is not just an idea
2 (Accounting ; Finance ) [C] = TANGIBLE ASSET
3 (Finance ) tangibles [pl.]
physical things that you can invest in, rather than financial investments:
There can be many problems in investing in tangibles like antiques.
OPP INTANGIBLE
Examples
- For we had tangible reasons to take the threat seriously.
- It is the only tangible object the astronomer can handle.
- He had an eager inward life with little enjoyment of tangible things.
- It is the best term those trained in tangibles can find for a broken heart.
- Both forms are readily gasified by electrical discharge without leaving any tangible residue.
- He had demonstrated to all those obsessed with the tangible the transcendence of visionary.
- For those who do invest their savings it would normally be in the form of something tangible.
- Language is a storehouse of sound images, and writing is tangible form of those images.
- It is nothing more tangible than a book keeping entry in the accounts of an established bank.
- These persons tend to look for a higher return, in less tangible savings such as bonds and debentures.
Other Languages
- "tangible" meaning in Chinese: adj. 可触知的,有实质的,实在的;确实的;【法律】有形的。 tangible material benefit...
- "tangible" meaning in Japanese: tangible有体ゆうたい具体的ぐたいてき具体ぐたい有形ゆうけい
- "tangible" meaning in Russian: 1) осязаемый факт, реальность Ex: fighting hunger and dise...
- "tangible" meaning in French: n. élément que l'on peut toucher ou palper, chose réelle...