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sensitizer |
sensitizing |
sensitometer |
sensitory |
sensive |
sensor
| sensori-volitional
| sensorial
| sensorimotor
| sensorimotor area
| sensorimotor region
sensor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sensor has 1 sense
- sensor(n = noun.artifact) detector, sensing element - any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner; Array is a kind of device
has particulars: metal detector, mine detector, electric eye, magic eye, photocell, photoconductive cell, photoelectric cell, trace detector
Derived form verb sense1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sensor, n. a device giving a signal for the detection or measurement of a physical property to which it responds.
Etymology
SENSORY, after MOTOR
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