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Perceptibly

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.

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perceptibly

adv. In a perceptible manner.

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perceptibly

adv. in a noticeable manner; "he changed noticeably over the years" [syn: noticeably] [ant: imperceptibly]

Usage examples of "perceptibly".

Rather is the relation between light and electricity seen to be based on the fact that all polarities arising perceptibly in nature are creations of the same primeval polarity, that of Levity and Gravity.

These degrees are opened in a person by the Lord according to his life and actually opened in the world, but not perceptibly and sensibly until after his departure from the world.

But then came a dream of wholly different character, in a perceptibly different sphere, in which I walked with my father while he put his arm around my shoulders and cried.

The cigar now fell from the gaping mouth and the solitary eye also opened perceptibly wider like that of a hippopotamus emerging from the water.

Vega Jumpoff expanded perceptibly in the view port as Wellford allowed his craft, with its residue of momentum after deceleration, to drift in upon the station.

Winter Solstice, for five or six days, the length of the days did not perceptibly increase.

Darwin would no more expect an island of black men to be turned white, or even perceptibly whitened after a few generations, than the reviewer himself would do so.

No mucus had been secreted, and the surrounding fluid was only just perceptibly tinted of a pale pink.

Since the top was being built first as it rose, it was widening slowly but perceptibly and the upper sections had a tendency to draw slack from the unfixed ones being raised.

But while he debated the unswallowed part of the shrimp grew perceptibly smaller.

When they at last halted and recommenced their flights of shafts, those loosed by the defenders at the men laboring on the abattis slackened perceptibly.

Hundreds of the excited mob press close to the cowering motorman, whose hand is observed to tremble perceptibly as he transfers a stick of pepsin gum from his pocket to his mouth.

And the sun perceptibly smaller, according to the astronomers, and the earth cooled down a number of degrees, and inconceivable arts practised by men of a type yet undreamed of, and all the fighting creeds merged in one great universal A knock at his door interrupted his revery.

And Rogers started so perceptibly that Jimbo shifted his weight a little, thinking he must be uncomfortable.

When they at last halted and recommenced their nights of shafts, those loosed by the defenders at the men laboring on the abatis slackened perceptibly.