Sensing

Definitions: Sensing

Sensing

Noun

1. The perception that something has occurred or some state exists; "early detection can often lead to a cure".

2. Becoming aware of something via the senses.

Date "sensing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1881. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Sensing

Domain	Definitions
Computing	Action of feeling through the sense organs which receive information from the environment or other devices. Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	The pacemaker's recognition of a native depolarization in either the atrium or the ventricle. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Sensing

Synonyms: detection (n), perception (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Sensing

English words defined with "sensing": sensing element, sniff, snuff ♦ taste, tasting. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sensing": 5th Glove ♦ AIRBORNE SENSOR SPECIALIST, ambient thermostatic switch, ASPRS, atrial inhibited, AV delay, A-V interval, AV sequential asynchronous, AVHRR ♦ CHEMICAL-RADIATION TECHNICIAN, clutched pick-off, Coastal Zone Color Scanner, COVERAGE MAP ♦ Distributed Active Archive Center, DSAD, dynamic positioning system, dynamic stationing system ♦ FACT_90, feed forward, Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers, fixed-rate, force balance transducer, FOSDIC ♦ gamma-ray spectrometer, GISS, Gravity Perception ♦ hydraulic load cell ♦ I*2 INTEGER, imaging sensor, industrial robot, IN-SITU DATA, interferometric sensor, ISPRS ♦ Landsat, lock, to lock on ♦ mark scanning, multiple scattering, multispectral scanner, Multistage Remote Sensing ♦ NOHRSC ♦ optical mark reading ♦ PAPER TAPE, passive microwave, passive system, photoelectric photometry, PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER, pickoff, pipe coil, Plant Root Cap, POLICE OFFICER, CRIME PREVENTION, proximity fuze, pyranometer ♦ remote indicating, Remote sensing, robotic tool ♦ self-inhibition, sense line, sensing state, SPACE IMAGING, Stennis Space Center, Stratospheric Aerosol & Gas Experiment ♦ temperature profile recorder, thermal imagery, THERMAL INFRARED, thermostatic switch ♦ UNATTENDED-GROUND-SENSOR SPECIALIST ♦ ventricular demand, vidicon, Vomeronasal Organ. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sensing

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I'm sensing a mood. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Sensing

Domain	Title
References	Mark Sensing Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Image Sensing Systems, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) Security Sensing and Detection Equipment in Egypt: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Introduction to the Mathematics of Inversion in Remote Sensing and Indirect Measurements (reference) Practical Applications of Infrared Thermal Sensing and Imaging Equipment, Second Edition (Tutorial Texts in Optical Engineering Vol. TT34) (reference) Sensing the Passion: Reflections During Lent (reference) Sensing Your Hidden Presence: Toward Intimacy With God (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Sensors : Your Resource For Sensing Communications And Control (reference) (more periodical examples)

High Tech	SMC SMC2402W Wireless PCI Card 11/22MBPS Auto Sensing (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Sensing

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Huge fires on the island of Borneo on 1997 September 22 05:10 UT, asviewed by the NOAA-14 Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite (POES). The image is based on Global AreaCoverage (GAC) data at 4km resolution. More images of these fires areavailable from the Centre for RemoteImaging, Sensing and Processing at the National University of Singapore.Credit: NASA.		Activating acoustic release mechanism of BISP BISP - Benthic Interface Sensing Package On NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	BISP being released and beginning trip to bottom BISP - Benthic Interface Sensing Package On NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Grappling hook to secure BISP to cable prior to recovery BISP - Benthic Interface Sensing Package On NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	Sensing units on BISP Measured rate of biological respiration in bottom sediments BISP - Benthic Interface Sensing Package On NOAA Ship PEIRCE.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Overhead view of a TIROS satellite showing interior arrangement of satellite sensing packages including TV cameras and infra-red sensors. In: "TIROS A Story of Achievement" RCA, February 28, 1964, Figure 2.Credit: NOAA in Space.
	Infrared measurements detect boundary of Gulf Stream - the forerunner of today's sea surface temperature mapping derived from infrared sensing data.Credit: NOAA in Space.		Map of TIROS II infrared imagery with accompanying cloud analysis. TIROS II was the first meteorological satellite to carry infra-red remote sensing instruments.Credit: NOAA in Space.
	The sensing unit that technician Jeff Thomas is attaching records motion and other data so scientists can determine how much time this steer spends grazing each day. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
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Use in Literature: Sensing

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Sensing

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Smell and taste belong to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. (references)
		New methods of sensing infant breathing need to be developed and evaluated. (references)
		Some noninvasive methods of sensing breathing other than transthoracic impedance might be more efficacious than impedance. (references)
Business		U.S. industry expertise in areas such as construction and engineering, meteorology, telecommunications, information technology, remote sensing technology and training will all be in demand in the Korean market. (references)
		Satellite Remote Sensing Equipment - Satellite remote sensing is regarded as an effective way in which a large-scale and regularly updated information base can be provided for the planning and control of the land and water consumption of entire monitoring areas. (references)
Economic History	Ethiopia	In July 1977, sensing the disarray in Ethiopia, Somalia attacked across the Ogaden Desert in pursuit of its irredentist claims to the ethnic Somali areas of Ethiopia. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Sensing

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Recognizing this fact, I directed the implementation of an operational civil land satellite remote sensing system, with the operational management responsibility in Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sensing

"Sensing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.45% of the time. "Sensing" is used about 365 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	79.45%	290	17,096
Noun (singular)	14.52%	53	46,657
Noun (proper)	3.01%	11	106,044
Adjective (general or positive)	3.01%	11	106,044
Total	100.00%	365	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Sensing

The following table summarizes the usage of "sensing" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Sensing	Last name	100	78,367
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Sensing

Country	Name	Country	Name
Australia	Mark Sensing Ltd.	USA	Image Sensing Systems, Inc.
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Sensing

Expressions using "sensing": cutaneous sensing ♦ direct sensing ♦ roadway environmental sensing ♦ sensing component ♦ sensing element ♦ sensing head ♦ sensing state ♦ tactile sensing ♦ target sensing ♦ Tissue Sensing. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "sensing": remote-sensing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sensing

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
remote sensing	152	current sensing	6
diagnostic module sensing	37	motion sensing camera	5
sensing	23	image sensing system	5
quorum sensing	14	current sensing relay	5
others sensing	14	gis remote sensing	5
sensing traffic	12	motion sensing light	5
position sensing	12	temperature sensing	5
remote sensing job	12	sensing technology	5
fluorescence sensing	11	pressure sensing valve	5
honeywell sensing and control	10	in kingdom remote sensing united vegetation	5
application remote sensing	9	orbiter remote sensing	5
pressure sensing	9	imaging sensing technology	5
reverse sensing system	9	career in remote sensing	5
honeywell.com sensing	9	remote sensing tutorial	4
international journal remote sensing	8	voltage sensing relay	4
honeywell sensing	7	definition remote sensing	4
current sensing relays	7	link remote sensing	4
remote sensing software	7	canada center remote sensing	4
remote sensing satellite	6	canadian center remote sensing	4
remote sensing of the environment	6	remote resource sensing	3
		circuit current sensing	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Sensing

Language		Translations for "sensing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		感觉 (Feeling, feelings, sensation, sense, sensed, Sensibilities, sensibility, sensorial). (various references)

Danish		tilstand sensing (sensing state), larvefodsføler (sensing-tracks), kryds forsynet med udstyr til sporing af fodgængere (crossing equipped for sensing pedestrians), kraengningsmaaleren paa udspaendt traad,der normalt er en tyngderegistrerende anordning,kan ikke skelne mellem en aegte vinkel fra lodlinjen og en vandret acceleration (cannot distinguish between a true angle from the vertical and a horizontal acceleration, normally a gravity sensing device, the taut line inclinometer), kædeføler (sensing-tracks), foeler (detecting device, detecting element, sensing element, sensor), fjernkontrol uden tilsyn (unattended sensing), følerkæde (sensing-tracks), følerelement (sensing element, trial body), F2 (sensing state), europæisk telemålingssatellit (European Remote Sensing Satellite). (various references)

Dutch		detectie (demodulation, detection). (various references)

Finnish		tuntoelin (contour follower, copying sensor, copying stylus, detecting device, feeler, follower, probe, sensing element, sensor, tactile organ, tracer, tracer finger), tunnustelutila (F2, sensing state), mittauselin (sensing element, trial body), F2 (F2, sensing state). (various references)

French		procédé direct d'entrée. (various references)

German		Abfühlen (sense, to sense). (various references)

Greek		εξεύρεση τησ φόρασ, ανίχνευση (detection, F2, reconnaissance, screening, sensing state, tracing, tracking). (various references)

Hungarian		célkeresés (target sensing). (various references)

Italian		sensing, rivelamento. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ロマン派 (Lolita complex, London, long, long hair, long hole, Long Island, long relief pitcher, long run, long seller, Longbeach, long-circuit appeal, Longines, longshot, paedophile, read-only memory, remote sensing, Rolex, ROM, rondo, sexual attraction to children, the romantic school), リ� ド鋼 (lute, rearcar, remake, remote, remote car, remote control, remote directory, remote sensing, remote switch, rheumatism, rimland, rimmed steel, sledge), 海洋リモートセンシング (ocean remote sensing), 変換子 (pickup, sensing element). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ロモートセンシング (remote sensing), リモートセンシング (remote sensing), かいようリモートセンシング (ocean remote sensing), へ�"か�"し (pickup, sensing element). (various references)

Korean		느낌 (Feel, impression). (various references)

Pig Latin		ensingsay

Portuguese		elemento sensor. (various references)

Russian		считывать считывание. (various references)

Spanish		percepción (apprehension, detection, insight, percept, perception), detección (demodulation, detection, search, spotting). (various references)

Swedish		informationsgivare (sensing element, sensor), givarelement (sensing element, trial body). (various references)

Turkish		duyarlı kafa (sensing head), algılama elemanı (sensing element). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Sensing

Misspellings
	"Sensing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bensing, Esenin, Fensvig, Mensinga, mensonge, Senesino, sening, senjin, Senlin, sensi, sensient, sension, Serning, shenzen, Svennsen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sensing"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sensing" (pronounced se"nsing)
5	-e" n s i ng	commencing, condensing, dispensing, expensing, fencing, lensing, mensing.
4	-n s i ng	advancing, announcing, balancing, bouncing, conferencing, convincing, dancing, denouncing, distancing, enhancing, experiencing, financing, freelancing, glancing, influencing, Lancing, licensing, mincing, outdistancing, pouncing, prancing, pronouncing, rebalancing, referencing, refinancing, renouncing, rinsing, romancing, sentencing, sequencing, silencing, teleconferencing, trouncing, unconvincing, videoconferencing, wincing.
3	-s i ng	accessing, acquiescing, addressing, affixing, amassing, annexing, assessing, basing, blessing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, compressing, confessing, conversing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dismissing, dispersing, displacing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enticing, erasing, expressing, facing, faxing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, hissing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, kissing, lapsing, leasing, loosing, massing, menacing, messing, missing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, practicing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pulsing, racing, reassessing, recessing, redressing, reducing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, reminiscing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, sacrificing, seducing, servicing, showcasing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, unceasing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wissing, witnessing, xeroxing.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Sensing

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: ensigns.
	Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-n-s-s"
	-1 letter: ensign, gneiss, singes.
	-2 letters: nines, segni, sengi, signs, sines, singe, sings.
	-3 letters: egis, engs, gens, gien, gies, gins, inns, ness, nine, segs, seis, sign, sine, sing, sins.
	-4 letters: eng, ens, ess, gen, gie, gin, inn, ins, seg, sei, sen, sin, sis.
	-5 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, si.
	Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-n-s-s"
	+1 letter: ginsengs, nighness.
	+2 letters: angriness, assenting, censusing, dinginess, finessing, lessening, lessoning, manginess, nestlings, ranginess, sanguines, seasoning, sennights, sensating, thingness.
	+3 letters: anagenesis, assignment, boringness, confessing, consignees, daringness, dispensing, dissenting, engrossing, ensigncies, fastenings, gannisters, graininess, guanosines, harnessing, hungriness, ingestions, ingression, insurgents, kingliness, livingness, lovingness, missending, nighnesses, nonsigners, pangenesis, reasonings, sapogenins, screenings, seasonings, singleness, singletons, slanginess, sponginess, stinginess, suspending, unassigned, undressing, witnessing.
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