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Perceivable

Perceivable \Per*ceiv"a*ble\, a. Capable of being perceived; perceptible. -- Per*ceiv"a*bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
perceivable

late 15c., from Old French percevable, from perçoivre (see perceive). Related: Perceivably.

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perceivable

a. Capable of being perceived; discernible.

WordNet
perceivable
  1. adj. capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing; "perceivable through the mist"

  2. capable of being apprehended or understood [syn: apprehensible, intelligible, graspable, understandable]

Usage examples of "perceivable".

The turn brought Silver City on the port side where it was easily perceivable in the dry, dustless atmosphere of the locality.

A displacement of the assemblage point beyond the midline of the cocoon of man makes the entire world we know vanish from our view in one instant, as if it had been erased--for the stability, the substantiality, that seems to belong to our perceivable world is just the force of alignment.

The emanations exert great pressure on organisms, and through that pressure organisms construct their perceivable world.

The new seers, on the other hand, imbued with practicality, were able to see a flux of emanations and to see how man and other living beings utilize them to construct their perceivable world.

But the chirpings were subtly changing to whispers he couldn't quite understand no matter how much he strained, the sense of them not quite perceivable yet filling him with such a feeling of growing menace that the Bard awoke with a gasp, staring blankly up at the black silk canopy, a darker mass in the room s darkness, his heart pounding fiercely.

The angle of light is direct and severe, making the people on the bed appear to us in a special framework, their intrinsic form perceivable apart from the animal glue of physical properties and functions.

And with the introduction of the idea of the square root of minus one or i and the complex numbers, mathematics definitely ceased to be a simple thing of magnitude, perceivable in pictures.

And with the introduction of the idea of the square root of minus one -- or i -- and the complex numbers, mathematics definitely ceased to be a simple thing of magnitude, perceivable in pictures.