Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium, An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate, Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness, transitive verb_ To become aware of; perceive, To grasp; understand, To detect automatically, adjective_ Genetics Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.