Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being perceptible: as, the perceptibility of light or color.
- noun Perception; power of perceiving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being perceptible.
- noun rare Perception.
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- noun The state, quality, or condition of being
perceptible .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being perceptible by the mind or the senses
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Examples
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But he had left Anders with a gift, analytic perceptibility.
Anders: A Brief History Matthew J. Robinson 2011
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What you see in a conventional humdrum library is merely what is on the surface of perceptibility.
Excerpt from Codex Infinitum Kane X. Faucher 2010
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Global Warming is slowly but perceptibility making its presence felt from the melting artic ice packs to the changing Migration Habits of birds all over the world.
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Since material extension is a necessary condition for their perceptibility, no particular could appear to have compresent properties unless it were material.
Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008
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In a recent article examining researchers™ use of the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana as a model organism, Sabina Leonelli (2008) points out that models can be abstract (vs. concrete) in different ways: absolutely, in terms of their sense perceptibility; or relatively, in terms of their physical meaning with respect to the phenomena represented or the range of phenomena they are taken to represent.
The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008
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Its impact on vision, for example, is to acutely intensify the perceptibility of moving objects, or, if the field of vision is static, visual gradients.
Archive 2007-08-01 James Killus 2007
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Its impact on vision, for example, is to acutely intensify the perceptibility of moving objects, or, if the field of vision is static, visual gradients.
Tranquility James Killus 2007
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Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible.
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Therefore, if any sensible object be indivisible, such object, if set in the said extreme place whence imperceptibility ends and perceptibility begins, will have to be both visible and invisible their objects, whether regarded in general or at the same time; but this is impossible.
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But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.
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