Used in a Sentence

apprehensible

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for apprehensible.

Editorial note

But when they shift into some different oscillatory modes, the novel patterns become apprehensible.

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Quick take

(literary) Which can be apprehended (usually in the sense of being understood).

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

(literary) Which can be apprehended (usually in the sense of being understood).

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for apprehensible.

Example sentences

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But when they shift into some different oscillatory modes, the novel patterns become apprehensible.

2

The passage of time is the most directly apprehensible aspect of reality.

3

Aesthetically enjoyable and with an organic feel, the intricate detail suggests a lot of information is represented, yet Graphcore's diagram does not seem immediately apprehensible.

4

Which would be a morally apprehensible thing to do.

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Using common slang makes the polysyllabic immediately apprehensible.

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Americans are often given to pronouncements of childlike problem-solving optimism about things for which it is all but certifiable that there is no solution, or at any rate, things for which the notion of an identifiable, apprehensible, and discrete solution is not intelligible.

Quote examples

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The population itself is a very heterogeneous "dataset", that becomes (perhaps) apprehensible after you interrogate it with respect to the statistical question you have in mind.

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>Not quite I just mean to say that Dennett denies that there is anything that is "ineffable, intrinsic, private, [and] directly or immediately apprehensible in consciousness".

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Perhaps the greatest trick that materialism has pulled off is conflating "natural" with "material." To the idealist, mind -- this experiential fabric that is directly and unmistakably apprehensible -- is perfectly natural, and so idealism is "naturalism." The in-principle-unobservable abstraction called "matter" is what's spooky and unnecessary.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use apprehensible in a sentence?

But when they shift into some different oscillatory modes, the novel patterns become apprehensible.

What does apprehensible mean?

(literary) Which can be apprehended (usually in the sense of being understood).

What part of speech is apprehensible?

apprehensible is commonly used as adjective.