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Webster 1913 Edition
Perceptible
Per-cep′ti-ble
(pẽr-sĕp′tĭ-b’l)
, Adj.
Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable; large enough to be perceived; not so small as to be incapable of perception.
With a
– perceptible
blast of the air. Bacon.
Per-cep′ti-ble-ness
, Noun.
Per-cep′ti-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Perceptible
PERCEP'TIBLE
,Adj.
1.
That may be perceived; that may impress the bodily organs; that may come under the cognizance of the senses; as a perceptible degree of heat or cold; a perceptible odor; a perceptible sound. A thing may be too minute to be perceptible to the touch.2.
That may be known or conceived of.Definition 2024
perceptible
perceptible
English
Adjective
perceptible (comparative more perceptible, superlative most perceptible)
- Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 2, in The Celebrity:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. […] But withal there was a perceptible acumen about the man which was puzzling in the extreme.
- Her voice was barely perceptible over the noise, but her gestures made her meaning clear.
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Translations
able to be perceived
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Noun
perceptible (plural perceptibles)
- Anything that can be perceived.
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Etymology
From Late Latin perceptibilis, equivalent to percebre + -ible.
Adjective
perceptible m, f (masculine and feminine plural perceptibles)