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UK
/pəsˈɛptəbəl/
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[ US /pɝˈsɛptəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈsɛptəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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capable of being perceived by the mind or senses
a perceptible limp
perceptible changes in behavior
easily perceptible sounds
a perceptible sense of expectation in the court -
easily seen or detected
he continued after a perceptible pause
a detectable note of sarcasm
How To Use perceptible In A Sentence
- The investigation revealed that it was likely that the airplane gradually accumulated a thin, rough glaze/mixed ice coverage on the leading edge deicing boot surfaces, possibly with ice ridge formation on the leading edge upper surface, as the airplane descended from 7000 feet mean sea level (msl) to 4000 feet msl in icing conditions, which may have been imperceptible to the pilots. WN.com - Business News
- His voice sunk to a barely perceptible level.
- The film was edited by a skilled technician so that the joints are imperceptible.
- Then, all of a sudden rising from her chair, she went over to the jug of roses, which she had placed on the writing-table, bent over the flowers with a kind of perceptible hesitation. and as suddenly came back to her seat. Maurice Guest
- Are there effluvia analogous to what we call odour: effluvia of extreme subtlety, absolutely imperceptible to us, yet capable of stimulating a sense-organ far more sensitive than our own? Social Life in the Insect World
- These immortal ideas, things barely perceptible are the most precious things of life.
- The price increase has had no perceptible effect on sales.
- The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.
- Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
- For example, the dark blue triangles on the pink background of the rosettes are barely perceptible in the old photograph and may be missed entirely if the viewer is not aware of the value shift.