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(physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli
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sensitivity
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Sensitivity of explosives is the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact , heat , or friction . Sensitivity, along with stability and brisance are three of the most significant properties of explosives that affect their use and application. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Sensitivity \Sen`si*tiv"i*ty\, n. The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver. Sensitivity and emotivity have also been used as the scientific term for the capacity of feeling. ...
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n. (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to pain" [syn: sensitiveness , sensibility ] the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a galvanometer of extreme sensitivity" sensitivity ...
Usage examples of sensitivity.
The American example is no criterion for Europe, for being a colony, it is an area of low Cultural sensitivity, with correspondingly less Cultural force and assimilative power.
Sels, you know as well as I do that your sensitivity when I so much as glance at Bett is almost paranoid.
What one finds in their work is always, first of all, a direct sensitivity to the material before them, and then a continual self-examination of their methodology and practice, a constant attempt to keep their work responsive to the material and not to a doctrinal preconception.
Amid the clutter of the thousands of minds aboard Outbound Flight, even Jedi sensitivity will be blunted.
By a process of careful selection, he would have to requisition jurors of compassion and sensitivity whose minds would be open to fresh concepts and whose imaginations would permit them to take the plunge into the penumbra of the occult and whose religious backgrounds would not cause them to discount the supernatural as entirely unthinkable.
The more sensitive a photoreceptor can be made the better, and one method of increasing the sensitivity is to increase the amount of light falling upon the visual pigment.
Her mind is of precisionist grade and is of greater sensitivity than my own.
Buckley child, her pronator teres was definitely out of commission, and right thankful she was, too, that it had lost its agonizing sensitivity.
With fingertips of suprahuman sensitivity, he could feel the little pulses of power below those slats of thin metal and ceramic and wood, like blood through capillaries.
The air veritably crackles with imminencedo you deny your sensitivity to that, Malazan?
It was something no outsider could ever detect, and even a Bloodletter lacked the sensitivity until the Hyarke was near beginning.
Such heightened sensitivity as compensation for blindness was used earlier by the British author Ernest Bramah, who created the blind detective Max Carrados, and later by the American writer Baynard Kendrick, whose sightless sleuth was Captain Duncan Maclain.
It was a show, Corvus knew: underneath the genteel exterior was a man with all the refinement and sensitivity of a ferret.
Recent behavioral experiments using short but strong magnetic pulses in transduction of geomagnetic field information to the nervous system, and both behavioral and direct electrophysiological experiments indicate sensitivity thresholds to DC magnetic fields down to a few nT.
This stretching taut of the penile skin significantly increases the sensitivity of the frenulum and glans as he forms a ring with his thumb and index finger and clasps just below the corona.