(a.) Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by the souses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.
Example Sentences:
(1) That cameo seemed horribly emblematic of a thoroughly underwhelming opening half which ended unadorned by a single shot on target, but almost imperceptibly something was shifting, and Klopp’s demeanour slowly shifted from jovially laid-back to scratchy and irritable.
(2) That shift might be imperceptible on paper, but where Araki's earlier work affected a certain nihilistic cool, Kaboom is warm and sympathetic towards its characters.
(3) In addition, cocaine's effects on food and water consumption and urine and fecal excretion, which were maximal by day 2, were imperceptible by day 5.
(4) The significance of two handwritten numbers scribbled almost imperceptibly on the back had been overlooked until now.
(5) The chronic persistent hepatitis, however, may develop through clinically imperceptible changes into a chronic aggressive hepatitis, and the inapparent acute hepatitis can even pass over directly into cirrhosis.
(6) The cancerolytic effect of active systemic immunotherapy, which has been shown experimentally able to eradicate a complete population of tumour cells provided they are not very numerous, has been confirmed in various forms of human leukemia and in a few solid tumours against which it was applied as treatment of the imperceptible residual disease which remains after chemotherapy or surgery.
(7) After a visit to the camp in 1966, Joan Didion described Sandperl as a man who looked as if he had, "all his life, followed some imperceptibly but fatally askew rainbow" and the institute as naive.
(8) Disadvantages of this technique are the external incision across the columella, which leaves an imperceptible scar of no clinical significance, and postoperative nasal tip edema, which resolves with time.
(9) Timing measures were obtained from subjects instructed to tap a Morse key in synchrony with a metronome which marked a timing pattern consisting of alternating blocks of intervals of imperceptibly different duration.
(10) He was 36 yards out but his hard, flat shot fizzed past a poorly positioned wall, seeming to swish slightly, almost imperceptibly right then left then right again, like the tailfin of a dolphin.
(11) Early radiologic signs of the hematoma consisted of obliteration of the aortic silhouette on the anteroposterior view and the left primary sulcus on the lateral film by a convex expanding homogenous density whose medial border blended imperceptibly with the mediastinal shadow.
(12) With little hope, he pressed on with his appeals and, almost imperceptibly at first, fortune's wheel began to turn.
(13) The remarkable sensitivity of the liver to small changes in glycemia implies that the normal coupling of the exercise-induced increase in Ra to glucose utilization may be signaled by small, nearly imperceptible changes in glucose.
(14) Berry mustered only five more points; and almost imperceptibly, Villanova seized control, soaring to a 10 point lead inside the last five minutes.
(15) It was established that all forms of ischaemic heart disease are accompanied by a significant potassium deficit imperceptible for blood and urine examinations of their electrolyte composition.
(16) Additionally, scattered cells showing a signet ring configuration were present, and in two cases, focal areas displaying chondromyxoid elements were also seen that appeared to merge imperceptibly with the surrounding spindle cell population.
(17) Pregnancy rates (highest among younger age and low parity groups) were influenced significantly and almost equally by age and parity but imperceptibly by ethnic origin.
(18) However, after incubation with hyaluronidase followed by staining with Lycramine brilliant blue JL, staining of megakaryocyte cytoplasm was either imperceptible or very pale blue.
(19) Another alternative way consists in the reinforcement of conditioning aiming both at the elimination of residual immunocompetent cells and at a more efficient action upon the imperceptible tumoral mass.
(20) An initially slow start vindicated their decision but, almost imperceptibly, the entertainment value rose.
Perceptible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible; perceivable.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the relationships between sociometric status and social perception varied as a function of task.
(2) Variables included an ego-delay measure obtained from temporal estimations, perceptions of temporal dominance and relatedness obtained from Cottle's Circles Test, Ss' ages, and a measure of long-term posthospital adjustment.
(3) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(4) This study examined the effects of cultural factors on perception of 15 boys and 21 girls in Nigeria.
(5) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(6) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(7) The current study explored the temporal course of the perception of vowel duration.
(8) Subjects with high ocular-dominance scores (right- or left-dominant subjects) showed for the green stimulus asymmetric behavior, while subjects with low ocular-dominance scores showed a tendency toward symmetry in perception.
(9) For each theory, a constraint on preformance is proposed based on interference between the "analytic" and "synthetic" pitch perception modes.
(10) While research into the cause of altered pain perception in psychotic patients is continuing, clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion of serious medical illness when evaluating such patients.
(11) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(12) Three experiments in person perception were conducted to investigate the conditions under which naive observers label an actor as aggressive and to ascertain how this label affects the reactions of the observers to the actor.
(13) The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of listening experience on the perception of intraphonemic differences in the absence of specific training with the synthetic speech sounds being tested.
(14) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
(15) It has been shown that adequate brain provision of this process is based in adults both on the functional topographic differentiation and specialization of separate perceptive operations and on the possibility of controlling generalized and local activating influences according to task requirements.
(16) Quantitative analysis of pain demonstrated an 87% improvement in their perception of pain in the remaining 19 patients, with an average follow-up of 8.5 years.
(17) The reverberation times were 2.1 and 1.6 s. In quiet conditions at normal speech level (60 dBA), the perception was better without earmuffs than with them.
(18) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
(19) Lack of transparency about the nature of the relationship between police and media also led to speculation and perceptions, whatever the facts, that caused "serious harm".
(20) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.