Look up: sensor

1. sensor
   (hardware) An electronic device used to measure a physical quantity such as temperature, pressure or loudness and convert it into an electronic signal of some kind (e.g a voltage). Sensors are normally components of some larger electronic system such as a computer control and/or measurement system. ...
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2. Sensor
   A device which transmits an output signal in response to a physical input stimulus (as radiance, sound, etc.). Science and engineering sensors are distinguished according to the stimuli to which they respond.
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3. sensor
   [Noun] Equipment used to detect small amounts of movement, light or heat.
   Example: The sensors on his chest measured his heart rate.
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4. Sensor
   A device that can detect a change in a physical quantity (light or pressure for example) and produce a corresponding electrical signal.
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5. Sensor
   Device to measure blood glucose continuously.
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6. Sensor
   A great fishing line made by Daiwa
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7. Sensor
   A gas detecting sensor converts the presence of a gas or vapor into an electrically measurable signal. The sensor is the heart of a gas monitor.
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8. sensor
   Transducer or other device whose input is a quantitative measure of some external physical phenomenon and whose output can be read by a computer. Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • devices that enable a system to detect and transmit changes in external con...
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9. Sensor
   Sen'sor adjective Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
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10. sensor
    A device designed to respond to physical stimuli such as temperature, light, magnetism, or movement, and transmit resulting impulses for interpretation, recording, movement, or operating control. ... Origin: see sense ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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11. Sensor
    • (a.) Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
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12. sensor
    (from the article `automation`) Advances in sensor technology have provided a vast array of measuring devices that can be used as components in automatic feedback control systems. ... The sensing elements are the measuring devices used in the feedback loop to monitor the value of the output variable. In the heating system example, ... ...
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13. Sensor
    Sensor 1. A device that responds to a physical stimulus and produces an electronic signal. Sensors are increasingly being combined with RFID tags to detect the presence of a stimulus at an identifiable location. 2. A device that responds to a stimulus and produces an electronic signal. Often used to describe the exit control devices in a library.
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14. Sensor
    [comics] She is a snake-like alien, who was later altered by "Hypertaxis energy" and Ra`s al Ghul into a semi-humanoid shape, retaining her serpent`s tail but gaining a humanoid upper body. ==Fictional character biography== Jeka Wynzorr was the princess of the planet Orando, a world populate...
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15. Sensor
    Sensor is a cultivated variety of potato.
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16. Sensor
    A sensor (also called detector) is a converter that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an (today mostly electronic) instrument. For example, a mercury-in-glass thermometer converts the measured temperature into expansion and contraction...
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17. Sensor
    A gas detecting sensor converts the presence of a gas or vapor into an electrically measurable signal. The sensor is the heart of a gas monitor.
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18. sensor
    part of a measuring instrument, or measuring chain, which is directly affected by the measurand and which generates a signal related to the value of the measurand
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19. sensor
    functional unit that senses the effect of a measured variable (quantity) at its input and places a corresponding measurement signal at its output NOTE 1 - The corresponding physical unit is named sensor or detecting device. NOTE 2 - Examples of sensors are a) thermocouple b) foil strain gauge c) pH electrode.
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20. Sensor
    An electronic device designed to detect a specific phenomenon, such as the presence or absence of a physical object, and used to affect control over a designated process.
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21. sensor
    A device that converts an input signal into a quantity that can measured by another instrument.
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22. sensor
    Type: Term Pronunciation: sen′sŏr Definitions: 1. A device designed to respond to physical stimuli such as temperature, light, magnetism, or movement, and to transmit resulting impulses for interpretation, recording, movement, or operating control. See: sense
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23. sensor
    In computing, a device designed to detect a physical state or measure a physical quantity, and produce an input signal for a computer. For example, a sensor may detect the fact that a printer has run out of paper or may measure the temperature in a kiln. In electronics, a sensor is triggered by chan...
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24. sensor
    In a closed system, the element that detects change and signals the effector to initiate a response.
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25. sensor
    A device that responds to a stimulus, such as heat, light, or pressure, and generates a signal that can be measured or interpreted.
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