Both Uses of
perceptible
in
The Old Man and the Sea
- "But watching the movement of the water against his hand he noted that it was perceptibly slower lash the two oars together across the stern and that will slow him in the night," he said.†
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- They were only perceptible at first as the light is in the sky before the moon rises.†
Definition:
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(perceptible) capable of being noticed -- typically because it is different enough or large enough