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sensor

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1947, from an adjective (1865), a shortened form of sensory (q.v.).

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Sidewinders, which used the Argon-cooled Indium Antimonide Sensor that was extremely sensitive.

The sensors of his life-support system, having detected suitable air around him, automatically deactivated the gas-conversion macromolecules in the linings of his throat and nasal passages, and he went on external respiration.

The vast array of coalition sensors trained on Kuwait had failed to detect the preparations for the Iraqi attack even though it included the massing of the Iraqi Third Armored and Fifth Mechanized Divisions in southern Kuwait.

Ordinarily, these sensors were employed to detect potential flight hazards such as micrometeoroids or other debris.

Installed in the cockpit of a plane designed to be flown by a machine rather than a human, the pilot would control it with microswitch sensors and readout screens positioned in front of unmoving eyes.

Designed to administer a major city and to cope effectively with any crises that city might encounter, Governor Robots contain multifunctional sensor arrays underneath their skin.

The sensor overwatch AI filtered a possible message out of the interstellar background and passed it through to the controller of Station SSS-900.

Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.

The high-energy proton spectrpmetry clusters flunked out, too, as did the gravimetric distortion mapping scanner, the fixed angle gamma frequency counter, the wide-angle EM radiation imaging scanner, the quark population analysis counter, the Z-range particulate spectrometry sensor, the low-frequency EM flux sensor, the localized subspace field stress sensor, the parametric subspace field stress sensor, the hydrogen-filter subspace flux scanner, the linear calibration subspace flux sensor, the variable band optical imagining cluster, the virtual aperture graviton flux spectrometer, the high-resolution graviton flux spectrometer, the very low energy graviton spin pola-rimeter, the passive imaging gamma interferometry sensor, the low-level imagining sensor, the virtual particle mapping camera, and even the life-form analysis instrument counter.

She felt like gutting the control panel with her bare hands, then she noticed something odd about the readings from the parametric subspace field stress sensor.

With a whirring of strained servomotors, domed, rectangular, and humaniform heads swiveled, audio sensors perked up, and countless photoreceptors came into sharp focus.

But I have some news for those gloomy sensors of yours: No matter what you may choose to parade before my photoreceptors, you will never again hear me express concerns about deactivation.

He pressed the sensor platelet into the hollow under his ribs on his right side, and saw that the powerpack implant in that location still had a .

The radiometer itself was a small aluminum rectangular cake tin, its bottom covered with black polka dots, the infrared sensors.

The radiometer sensor dish fitted into one end and the image tube into the other.