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/pəsˈiːvəbəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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capable of being perceived especially by sight or hearing
perceivable through the mist - capable of being apprehended or understood
How To Use perceivable In A Sentence
- Instead of that, the destination is a situation that is perceivable, and declared desirable.
- And she knew that to him they were alone together in a world where the high-rouged row of ballet faces and the massed whines of the violins were as imperceivable as powder on a marble Venus. Flappers and Philosophers
- Hence we see things in the dark: our brains fill in what is most likely there, what might be there, or what we fear could be there, based on small clues from what actually is perceivable there.
- There is energy there that is readily perceivable, that is different from similar types of psychological/cultural energy that one experiences on one’s own or around the family kitchen table with only 3-5 people; the same sort of group energy exists with a mob, or during a wedding ceremony, a rock concert, a political demonstration, or a national tragedy like JFK’s assassination, or 9/11 and so on. Another Look
- In other words, for us a rock is solid and impenetrable, but for those on a different frequency level, it might not even be perceivable as such if at all. Bradley Monton's Paper criticizing Dover Decision
- He stared at the doctor, and she saw the almost imperceivable movement of a muscle in his jaw. Rhapsody In Time
- There's an old management trick: huff about unknown and imperceivable "errors" and "mistakes" and just not "getting it" to keep product to be repurposed elsewhere flowing. Nick Mamatas' Journal
- The strategy seeks to improve accessibility through utilising WCAG 2. 0's stipulatation that content should be 'perceivable', 'operable', 'understandable' and 'robust'. Computerworld News
- The writer in relation to the nature of perceivable reality and what is beyond -- imperceivable reality -- is the basis for all these studies, no matter what resulting concepts are labelled, and no matter in what categorized microfiles writers are stowed away for the annals of literary historiography. Nobel Lecture Writing And Being
- The second kitchen that got our attention features vertical cupboards all placed at a perceivable distance on the wall. Kitchen Cupboard With a Clue on What’s Inside, Milan 2010