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Definition of Perceptible

1. Adjective. Capable of being perceived by the mind or senses. "Perceptible changes in behavior"

2. Adjective. Easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind. "A perceptible sense of expectation in the court"

3. Adjective. Easily seen or detected. "He continued after a perceptible pause"

Definition of Perceptible

1. a. Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.

Definition of Perceptible

1. Adjective. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Perceptible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Perceptible

percentage point percentage rate percentage sign percentages percental percenter percenters percentile percentile dice percentiles

percents percentual percept percept analysis perceptibility perceptible (current term) perceptibleness perceptibly perception perceptional

perceptions perceptive perceptive deafness perceptively perceptiveness perceptivities perceptivity perceptorium perceptron perceptrons

Literary usage of Perceptible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Entities' may be distinguished into perceptible and inferential. An entity, whether perceptible or inferential, is either real or fictitious. ..."

2. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1907)
"In applying the method of just perceptible differences one starts from two stimuli which seem to be equal, increasing one stimulus until a difference is ..."

3. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law: Or, The by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1875)
"The expression ' permanent ' when applied to a sensible '• ~" object in the sense already employed imports that the object so described is perceptible ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1892)
"This will give two values for the least perceptible variation, ... To find the least perceptible accelerated variation the intensity is varied, ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly (1878)
"percipient " should not be a " perceptible," none why I should not be ... I think we are all perfectly "perceptible"—indeed, some of us are more ..."

6. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"The snow which one is accustomed to has a tint to it— painters usually give it a bluish cast—but there is no perceptible tint to the distant Alpine snow ..."

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