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.
-- Per*cep"ti*ble*ness, n. -- Per*cep"ti*bly, adv.
Per*cep"tion (?), n. [L. perceptio: cf. F. perception. See Perceive.]
1. The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect;
apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented
to them; discernment; apperhension; cognition.
2. (Metaph.) The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part,
of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or
instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material
objects or qualities through the senses; -- distinguished from
conception. Sir W. Hamilton.
Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own
existence.
Bentley.
3. The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something
external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.]
This experiment discovereth perception in plants.
Bacon.