NOTICEABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does noticeable mean? 

• NOTICEABLE (adjective)
  The adjective NOTICEABLE has 2 senses:

1. capable or worthy of being noticed

2. capable of being detected

  Familiarity information: NOTICEABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOTICEABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable or worthy of being noticed

Context example:

a noticeable lack of friendliness

Similar:

broad ((of speech) heavily and noticeably regional)

detectable; perceptible (easily seen or detected)

discernible; evident; observable (capable of being seen or noticed)

marked; pronounced (strongly marked; easily noticeable)

obtrusive (undesirably noticeable)

Attribute:

noticeability; noticeableness; obviousness; patency (the property of being easy to see and understand)

Antonym:

unnoticeable (not noticeable; not drawing attention)

Derivation:

notice (notice or perceive)

noticeableness (the property of being easy to see and understand)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Capable of being detected

Synonyms:

detectable; noticeable

Context example:

after a noticeable pause the lecturer continued

Similar:

perceptible (capable of being perceived by the mind or senses)

Derivation:

notice (notice or perceive)

noticeability; noticeableness (the property of being easy to see and understand)

 Context examples 

The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

You’ve not had Mars in Capricorn for two years, so this will be special and noticeable.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A noticeable change in a person's behavior and thinking.

(Personality Change, NCI Thesaurus)

With the passing of the sentence a feeling of relief seemed to communicate itself to all of them. Especially was it noticeable in Dennin.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A measurement of the eccentrocytes (erythrocytes in which the hemoglobin is localized to a particular portion of the cell, noticeable as localized staining) in a biological specimen.

(Eccentrocyte Count, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The ghostly galaxy doesn't have a noticeable central region, or even spiral arms and a disk, typical features of a spiral galaxy.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Beginning in 2012, amateur observations revealed a noticeable increase in the rate at which the spot is shrinking — by 580 miles per year — changing its shape from an oval to a circle.

(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)

At the time of writing Betelgeuse is at about 36% of its normal brightness, a change noticeable even to the naked eye.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)

Issue associated with an undesired streak, pattern, and/or a noticeable change in color from the rest of the materials used in device construction.

(Discolored Medical Device Material, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with an optical streak or other pattern on the signal surface that causes a noticeable change of color from the rest of the pultruded surface.

(Optical Discoloration Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)