PERCEPTION - Meaning and Pronunciation

How to pronounce perception?

This video provides examples of American English pronunciations of perception by male and female speakers.
In addition, it explains the meaning of perception through a dictionary definition and several visual examples.

IPA Transcription of perception is /pɚsˈɛpʃən/.

Definition of perception according to Wiktionary:
perception is a noun

As a noun perception can mean:
1. The organisation, identification and interpretation of sensory information.
2. Conscious understanding of something.
3. Vision (ability).
4. Acuity.
5. (cognition) That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood (imagine looking through fog, trying to understand if you see a small dog or a cat); also that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition, deduction, etc.

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