Meaning

2 senses
  1. A physical object; something that can be touched.

  2. Real or concrete results.

    Yes, but what are the tangibles?

Examples

12 sentences
  1. Please show me a tangible example.

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  2. Everything tangible relating to a computer can be called 'hardware'.

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  3. Service economy is a useful labor that does not produce a tangible commodity.

  4. Although those projects did get off the ground, they didn't produce any tangible results.

    deDiese Projekte kamen zwar in Gang, aber ohne sichtbare Ergebnisse. — al_ex_an_der

  5. There's no tangible connection.

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to

Borrowed from Middle French tangible, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tangere (“to touch”)

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Forms

plural: tangibles
Singulartangible
Pluraltangibles

regular

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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