Wiktionary
n. A signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception.
Usage examples of "subliminal message".
Reluctant to look directly at the sign, he watched its reflection in one of the glass door panes, so that any subliminal message would be reversed.
Another minute of film, containing the subliminal message, is shot with minimal light intensity, with the rheostat turned all the way down.
When she saw that he had discovered the subliminal message in her musical background, she reached out with bejeweled fingers and turned the sound down.
These particular examples are such common-sounding names that the reader begins to feel that you gave these characters the first name that came to mind-it leads to a subliminal message that the characters' identities don't matter.
Chapter Ten is where Wilkins explains steganography, or how to embed a subliminal message in an innocuous-seeming letter—.
What happens is, a computer genius -- a kind of Middle American Einstein working in secret in Van Luna, Kansas, a guy by the name of Eric Gipp -- taps into the Great National Computer and programs it to include with each broadcast from the Oval Office a subliminal message.
She didn't know if it had been a subliminal message or just serendipity, but she had never thought of what he'd said, or of him, when she bought them.
It was to be advertised subliminally on the Travels network, and it was part of Saul's job to supervise the design of the subliminal message.
As he spoke, Conlig thought, a kind of subliminal message was radiating out of him at Josephson.
What if they're programmed to set up battery-powered radios, turn them on, and start broadcasting that tone, pulse, subliminal message, whatever-it-is?