"perception" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "perception",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "perceptions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The government hopes to change the public's perception of the problem."
        },
        {
          "text": "When we asked people what they thought, we found there was a big difference between their perception and reality."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Perception is the action of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and/or tasting an object that made an impression on the senses."
      ],
      "id": "simple-perception-en-noun-rNRsnovw",
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable & uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-perception.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perception"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "perception",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "perceptions",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Countable nouns",
        "Uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The government hopes to change the public's perception of the problem."
        },
        {
          "text": "When we asked people what they thought, we found there was a big difference between their perception and reality."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Perception is the action of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching and/or tasting an object that made an impression on the senses."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "countable & uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pəˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-perception.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "perception"
}