Precept

A generally useless discussion section for a class at Princeton University. Large classes meet once a week in precepts, in addition to lecture. Precepts used to be taught by professors, but the quality has declined and they're now generally useless and taught by grad students.

Student 1: "Hey where are you heading?"
Student 2: "I have to go to my stupid, pointless Environmental Science precept."

by skifreak1923 March 25, 2011

Precept

Important rules.

The sign showed the students all the precepts, and the less important rules that no one listens to.

by AbbyWolf May 2, 2021

Precept

1 A word used to purely entice young minds to ponder
2 a big word for you kinda sorta gotta follow a rule someday
3 ask as many questions as you like i refuse to be annoyed
4 fall asleep in class so you dont know what the precepts are

"There will be a test on Friday discussing precept definition 4.

by Graffiti Junkie January 23, 2023

Extra Sensory Perception

The awareness of or ability to detect current or future events, other's feelings or thoughts beyond the normal channels of communication or without any tangible contact; clairvoyance; premonition.

Extra Sensory Perception ESP, clairvoyance made him aware the catastrophe was going to happen 3 days before it occurred.

by SkaWtT December 6, 2014

Perception

While our sensory receptors are constantly collecting information from the environment, it is ultimately how we interpret that information that affects how we interact with the world. Perception refers to the way sensory information is organized, interpreted, and consciously experienced. Perception involves both bottom-up and top-down processing. Bottom-up processing refers to the fact that perceptions are built from sensory input. On the other hand, how we interpret those sensations is influenced by our available knowledge, our experiences, and our thoughts. This is called top-down processing.

My Perception more messed up then the world

by mennäperille December 18, 2019

perceptive

capable of perceiving or observing. when you are able to receive outside sensory information. You can take in information or observe something by watching something or by hearing or by smelling or by feeling some touch.

Katie: Joe asked me out for a date.
Laura: Oh, is that what he said in the note he passed to you in class?
Katie: That is very perceptive of you.

by Dimple Dempsey November 30, 2010

Perceptisonic Lag

The amount of time, at a live performance by a popular band, between the beginning of a song and the beginning of the wave of applause signifying that the audience has realised which song is being played.

A: Man, the Perceptisonic Lag on that song was huge... Did those idiots not know what they were listening to?
B: They did play it pretty different from the album version...
A: Yeah, I guess so. But I knew what it was.

by unfairrobot December 19, 2012