Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perceptible \Per*cep"ti*ble\, a. [L. perceptibilis: cf. F. perceptible. See Perceive.] Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.
With a perceptible blast of the air.
--Bacon.
[1913 Webster] -- Per*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. --
Per*cep"ti*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "perceptive," from Late Latin perceptibilis "perceptible," from Latin percept-, past participle stem of percipere (see perceive). Meaning "capable of being perceived" is from c.1600. Related: Perceptibly; perceptibility.
Wiktionary
a. Able to be perceived, sensed, or discerned. n. Anything that can be perceived.
WordNet
adj. capable of being perceived by the mind or senses; "a perceptable limp"; "easily perceptible sounds"; "perceptible changes in behavior" [ant: imperceptible]
easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind; "a perceptible sense of expectation in the court"; "an obvious (or palpable) lie" [syn: obvious]
easily seen or detected; "a detectable note of sarcasm"; "he continued after a perceptible pause" [syn: detectable]
Usage examples of "perceptible".
The rhythm of alternating dawn and sunset, the strophe and antistrophe still perceptible through all the sudden shifts of our dithyrambic seasons and echoed in corresponding floral harmonies, made melody in the soul of Abel, the plain serving-man.
The massive reef in the distance, perceptible in the dark, that gigantic base of my tomb so newly begun on the banks of the Tiber, suggested to me no regret at the moment, no terror nor vain meditation upon the brevity of life.
It has sometimes in the end of words a sound obscure, and scarcely perceptible, as open, shapen, shotten, thistle, participle, metre, lucre.
The undulations of the peneplain had gradually become perceptible as such, next as low mounds of marl studded with broken rock, and then the land abruptly crumpled itself into a succession of barren knolls.
It was their changeling--and in a spirit of supreme irony Pickman had given the features a very perceptible resemblance to his own.
Even if they admit that the unhappy condition within us is due to the pravity inherent in body, they will urge that still the blame lies not in the Matter itself but with the Form present in it--such Form as heat, cold, bitterness, saltness and all other conditions perceptible to sense, or again such states as being full or void--not in the concrete signification but in the presence or absence of just such forms.
The weather being now so cold that the boiler-steam heating of the compartments was barely perceptible, they rode the whole way, awake or asleep, in their recently bought fur coats, plus gloves, hats, mufflers, and all the patchwork lap robes the provodnik could find for them.
There was but little perceptible wrong--doing, nothing overt which would cause the lover of his kind to grieve and point to the bad influence of the auri sacra fames.
Observation, from the seventeenth century onward, is a perceptible knowledge furnished with a series of systematically negative conditions.
They have perceptible existence in themselves apart from signifying, but they are also instruments for functioning in that way.
The spiritist expects the spirit to reveal itself in outwardly perceptible phenomena as if it were part of the physical world.
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible.
A decided degree of inflection in the outer and submarginal tentacles was perceptible in 25 m.
The difference in favor of superphosphate, at the time of hoeing, was very perceptible, even at some distance.
For we are constantly surrounded by supersensible sounds, and the state of motion of the air determines which of them become perceptible to us in our present state of consciousness.