0 past simple and past participle of glimpse
1 to see something or someone for a very short time or only partly:
There are many other issues which are glimpsed in the data but which are not explored in any systematic way.
But at the same time, the work allows some aspect of materiality to be glimpsed which is not entirely worldly.
Post-processual archaeology has been pre-eminently an archaeological practice situated in late-capitalist society glimpsed, as it were, from the centre of that society.
Audiences were glimpsed rather than shown; the musicians usually ignored the cameras altogether.
Ironically, it is through this dying that the depth of non-ego and its infinity and eternity can be glimpsed.
Following publication of the report, the term 'group think' emerged to suggest that a more insidious aspect of the phenomenology of knowledge had been glimpsed.
That site remains elusive, though; it is glimpsed only as in a glass, darkly.
All this happens regardless of whether the stimulus was a heard sound or something glimpsed with the eye.
