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perceptive (iou) and Shepard, Alan B(artlett), Jr. (sh)


perceptive (iou)



perceptive noun & adjective. LME.
[medieval Latin perceptivus, from percept-: see PERCEPTION, -IVE.]
A. noun.
An optical instrument of some kind. Only in LME.
In pl. The perceptive faculties or organs. M19.
b. adjective.
Characterized by or capable of perceiving; pertaining to or having perception; instrumental to perception. M17.
b. Of ready perception, discerning; exhibiting discernment. M19.
G. Greene The author of the most perceptive life of Stevenson.
Perceptible, cognizable. M18-E19.
perceptively adverb in a perceptive manner; in respect of perception: L18.
perceptiveness noun M19.
percep'tivity noun L17.

Shepard, Alan B(artlett), Jr. (sh)




born Nov. 18, 1923, East Derry, N.H., U.S.
died July 21, 1998, Monterey, Calif.

U.S. astronaut.

He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in the Pacific during World War II. In 1959 he became one of the original seven Mercury program astronauts. In May 1961, 23 days after Yury A. Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, Shepard made a 15-minute suborbital flight that reached an altitude of 115 mi (185 km). He later commanded the Apollo 14 flight (1971), the first to land in the lunar highlands. Retiring from NASA and the navy in 1974, he entered private business.