The surface will be very slightly curved, just perceptible to the eye. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
A perceptible limp. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A perceptible sense of expectation in the court. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
We are a profoundly egalitarian society, and the roots of this are perceptible from the very origins. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Experience: Lessons from the Canadian History Project] Reference
And we have not seen any kind of perceptible change. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2005] Reference
That's the crux of the requirement: dealing with "perceptible" time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A certain amount of data loss is acceptable just as long as the system doesn't remain down for any "perceptible" amount of time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
A multitude of nothingnesses ultimately create perceptible, meaningful Vision. From Wordnik.com. [Science Blog - Science news straight from the source] Reference
The shrinkage that night had been quite perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
But, on this occasion, Jean's disturbance was very perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She says she hasn't seen any perceptible difference from jurors. From Wordnik.com. [Death Row Cases Decline In 2009] Reference
If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The influence of Alfred de Musset is henceforth less perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The muscles around Candace's mouth take a perceptible downward turn. From Wordnik.com. [Girl Friends] Reference
Communication anywhere on earth becomes by any perceptible standard simultaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Bandwidth Be Thy Name] Reference
Each one is cast in bronze, and their very weight is perceptible as you walk amongst them. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Clothier: ACE Gallery: Three Artists] Reference
She turned her head away, and in a voice that was scarcely perceptible, in a stifled sigh. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This went off in a few hours, and was not at all perceptible to me on my visit in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
This year, with a new director in Adrian Partington, there's a perceptible rustle of change in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
From that moment it was evident that she was gaining strength, but so slowly as to be scarcely perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
But director Granik doesn't let her actors go dead: There is movement, barely perceptible, under the surface. From Wordnik.com. ['Winter's Bone:' A Miraculous Film From The Ozarks] Reference
On the fourth day the inflammation was evidently subsiding, and on the sixth day it was scarcely perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
One 1998 letter also carried the barely perceptible imprint era handwritten message: "Call Nathan R Wed 7 pm.". From Wordnik.com. [Flummoxing The Feds] Reference
They all took the infection, and either on the fifth or sixth day a vesicle was perceptible on the punctured part. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
During the days that followed, Sara became aware of a faintly perceptible difference in her relations with Elisabeth. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Whereas, previously, heat was perceptible to our sense of warmth, it now manifests as a gravity-denying property of matter. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
The past few months abound in evidence that disagreements over the past can have perceptible economic and political effects. From Wordnik.com. [A Very Lonely Japan] Reference
The spiritist expects the spirit to reveal itself in outwardly perceptible phenomena as if it were part of the physical world. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
It is possible, too, that your conversion made a greater perceptible change in your soul and life than did your sanctification. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
Aside from a subtle but perceptible lack of refinement compared to the big name brands, these pedals stand up as a solid option. From Wordnik.com. [Wrenched & Ridden bike reviews: Exustar E-PR200CKTi road pedals] Reference
Moreover, the movement of the muscles, though not outwardly perceptible, is quite similar to acoustic movements outside the body. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
They were buried southwest from the Queen's house, the mound of which was perceptible until a few years ago, when it was cultivated. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
In this final panel, printed white on white, the tiny digits are barely perceptible, blurring the line between nothingness and infinity. From Wordnik.com. [An Artist for Whom the 'Glitch' Is the Message] Reference
The reason of this is easily perceptible; for he who possesses property, dreads every change, and supports the existing state of things. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Even better, this can all happen in the background while another application is being used -- with no perceptible decrease in performance. From Wordnik.com. [Intel-McAfee, Take Two] Reference
He contemplated making the country pay all the expenses of the occupation, without the army becoming a perceptible burden upon the people. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
I scatter some coins across the floor and work on, bent over my task — all these barely perceptible bits of reluctant history and hate!. From Wordnik.com. [This Could Be Over] Reference
From that day a change came over this woman, slowly but surely; scarcely perceptible to strangers, but easy to be seen by those around her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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