Can a nearly-imperceptible difference really be enough to prevent the lawyers from being unleashed?
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You could call this point 'the ultraviolet spectrum of design': it's there, but imperceptible.
If you change your focus from near to far, the shift in light quality is almost imperceptible.
El problema es que un milisegundo es casi imperceptible para los seres humanos.
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Movement in the Alvord is so slight as to be almost imperceptible--sand dunes on its eastern side are shifting.
Conversations can even be monitored from the normally imperceptible vibrations of window glass.
Demonetized gold will fluctuate in a far more volatile manner than the organic, almost imperceptible, waves that mark the gold standard.
With change, you either want it to be almost imperceptible (slow) or so fast that it happens before the organization understands it.
Dogs are capable of hearing high-frequency sounds imperceptible to the human ear.
Often, the deterioration reveals itself in increments a mile or two per hour in lost velocity, a half-second slower step initially imperceptible to the athlete.
But because these savings came not from giant plants but in zillions of tiny pieces imperceptible to the untrained eye, energy efficiency gets little respect.
Print on less expensive paper, a difference imperceptible to most people.
An imperceptible electrical charge ran from the meter through his body.
But no, he reassured himself, this was human and harmless, this sheltered contact while the rain thrashed outside and the light inside the rooms dimmed by imperceptible notches.
The authors argue that even quakes that are imperceptible to humans can damage the caprock seal of CO2 repositories enough to release the gas back into the atmosphere.
Financial analyst, auditor, pension consultant, lawyer, politician and regulator conflicts of interest have become so commonplace and the corresponding risks so imperceptible, that we have come to accept preposterous scenarios.
The D5200 delivers amazing performance with lightning fast start-up time and nearly imperceptible shutter lag, the time when the shutter button is pressed to when the beautiful image is captured.
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The air suspension a system that asymmetrically pressurizes the suspension to counteract body roll while cornering has an easier time trimming out the vehicle, so much so that its workings are almost imperceptible.
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By delivering nearly imperceptible vibrations to select areas of the chest, KOR-fx activates neural pathways that subconsciously monitor the vibrations of the chest cavity that naturally occur when speaking, laughing or crying.
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So what happens at Bali matters, though the declaration that comes out of it will be encrypted in diplomatic language, and the difference between success and failure will be imperceptible to the untrained eye.
Manber and others at Google have tested our experiences of search, and found that nearly imperceptible improvements in speed affect the way we feel not just about the service, but also about the quality of the results.
After all, loyal fans of blended Scotch whiskies, which are made differently every year but are always supposed to taste exactly the same, often complain often over seemingly imperceptible changes, and even changes in the water used.
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Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources followed with its own study, which found that when lead bullets explode inside an animal, imperceptible particles of the metal can infect meat up to a foot and a half away from the bullet wound -- farther than previously thought.
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