What is "light-sensitive"

Usage examples of "light-sensitive".

Like the adult barnacle, the exterior of the ring was dotted with light-sensitive photophores, and when a suitable place for attachment was sensed, the ring colony was able to orient itself by means of excretions sprayed through pores in the skin of the tube, a method not dissimilar to that utilized by orbital vessels when aligning themselves for re-entry.

Like the adult barnacle, the exterior of the ring was dotted with light-sensitive photophores, and when a suitable place for attachment was sensed, the ring colony was able to orient itself by means of excretions sprayed through pores in the skin of the tube, a method not dissimilar to that utilized by orbital vessels when aligning themselves for reentry.

The apprentices were not above sticking bright glows into the Harper Hall watchwher's lair to make the light-sensitive creature cry.

The human eye, whose retina contains more than 110 million light-sensitive cells, is connected to the brain by way of the optic nerve tract, a pathway along which run a million individual nerves.

The gadget behind the typewriter is thought-sensitive, the way a photoelectric cell is light-sensitive.

One by one, separated by no more than a few seconds, the yellow and red rays of the high-pressure sodium lamps faded and died, to wait through the daylight hours until fifteen minutes before sunset, when their light-sensitive controllers would boost them to life again.

But we sense different wavelengths, as I shall explain later in the chapter, as different colors, so when we see the light-sensitive substance by the light it transmits or reflects we see it as colored.