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Sensing Element

Definition: Sensing Element

Sensing Element

Noun

1. Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Sensing Element

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

= sensor. (references)

Computing

The specific portion of a sensor which is directly responsive to the value of the measured quantity. Source: European Union. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

In a control system, any element which responds to the variation of a controlled variable. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Sensing Element

Synonyms: detector (n), sensor (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sensing Element

Specialty definitions using "sensing element": ambient thermostatic switchforce balance transducermultiple scatteringphotoelectric photometry, pyranometerremote indicatingtemperature profile recorder, thermostatic switchvidicon. (references)

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Modern Translations: Sensing Element

Language Translations for "sensing element"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

foeler (detecting device, detecting element, sensor), følerelement (trial body). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

voeler (sensor), aftastelement (trial body). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tuntoelin (contour follower, copying sensor, copying stylus, detecting device, feeler, follower, probe, sensor, tactile organ, tracer, tracer finger), mittauselin (trial body). (various references)

   

French

  

corps d'épreuve, élément sensible (sensor). (various references)

   

German

  

Messfühler (head, probe, sensing component, sensor, sensor element). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αισθητήριο (intuition, sensor). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rivelatore (demodulator, detector, developer, receptor, sensor, telltale), elemento sensibile (sensor). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

変換子 (pickup). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

へ"か"し (pickup). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ensingsay elementay

   

Portuguese

  

sensor (detecting device, sensor), elemento sensível (sensor), corpo de prova (trial body). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuerpo de prueba (trial body). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

informationsgivare (sensor), givarelement (trial body). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

algılama elemanı. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Sensing Element

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-n-s-s-t"

-3 letters: genteelisms, genteelness, teemingness.

-4 letters: genteelism, gentilesse, gentleness.

-5 letters: enlistees, esteeming, gentlemen, lessening, nestlings, nineteens, seemliest, selenites, sentinels.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-g-i-l-m-n-n-n-s-s-t"
 

+3 letters: gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanlinesses.

 

+5 letters: gentlemanlikenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Sensing Element


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 6E 73 69 6E 67      45 6C 65 6D 65 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000101 01101100 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#110 &#115 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#69 &#108 &#101 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 006E 0073 0069 006E 0067      0045 006C 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53718085758073239787179718086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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