Crossword clues for sensitivity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
--Hickok.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from sensitive + -ity. Sensitivity training attested by 1954.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of being sensitive. 2 The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
WordNet
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 to emotional feelings (of self and others) [syn: sensitiveness]
susceptibility to a pathogen [syn: predisposition]
the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment [syn: sensitiveness] [ant: insensitivity, insensitivity]
Wikipedia
Sensitivity may refer to:
- Allergic sensitivity, the strength of a reaction to an allergy
- Sensitivity for a typical transducer is the relationship indicating how much output you get for unit input. In other words, it is the ratio between the small change in electrical output to a small change in physical input signal.
- Film speed, photographic film's sensitivity to light
- Information sensitivity
- Sensitivity, the ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli
- Sensitivity analysis
- Sensitivity and specificity, statistical measures of the performance of binary classification tests
- Sensitivity (control systems), variations in process dynamics and control systems
- Sensitivity (electronics)
- Sensitivity (explosives), the degree to which an explosive can be initiated by impact, heat or friction
- Sensitivity (human), the strength of physical or emotional reaction in humans
- Sensitivity (instrument), the smallest signal that a certain instrument can measure.
- "Sensitivity" (Shapeshifters song), the fourth single from music group Shapeshifters
- "Sensitivity" (song), a song by rhythm and blues singer Ralph Tresvant
- "Sensitized", a song by Kylie Minogue from X
The sensitivity of an electronic device, such as a communications system receiver, or detection device, such as a PIN diode, is the minimum magnitude of input signal required to produce a specified output signal having a specified signal-to-noise ratio, or other specified criteria.
Sensitivity is sometimes improperly used as a synonym for responsivity.
The sensitivity of a microphone is usually expressed as the sound field strength in decibels (dB) relative to 1 V/ Pa (Pa = N/ m) or as the transfer factor in millivolts per pascal (mV/Pa) into an open circuit or into a 1 kilohm load.
The sensitivity of a loudspeaker is usually expressed as dB / 2.83 V at 1 metre. This is not the same as the electrical efficiency; see Efficiency vs sensitivity.
The sensitivity of a hydrophone is usually expressed as dB re 1 V/µPa.
Sensitivity in a receiver is normally defined as the minimum input signal S required to produce a specified signal-to-noise S/N ratio at the output port of the receiver and is defined as the mean noise power at the input port of the receiver times the minimum required signal-to-noise ratio at the output of the receiver:
$$S_i = k(T_a+T_{rx})B{\cdot}\frac{S_o}{N_o}$$
where
S = sensitivity [W] k = Boltzmann's constant T = equivalent noise temperature in [K] of the source (e.g. antenna) at the input of the receiver T = equivalent noise temperature in [K] of the receiver referred to the input of the receiver B = bandwidth [Hz] $\frac{S_o}{N_o}$ = Required SNR at output [-]Because receiver sensitivity indicates how faint an input signal can be to be successfully received by the receiver, the lower power level, the better. Lower power for a given S/N ratio means better sensitivity since the receiver's contribution is smaller. When the power is expressed in dBm the larger the absolute value of the negative number, the better the receive sensitivity. For example, a receiver sensitivity of −98 dBm is better than a receive sensitivity of −95 dBm by 3 dB, or a factor of two. In other words, at a specified data rate, a receiver with a −98 dBm sensitivity can hear signals that are half the power of those heard by a receiver with a −95 dBm receiver sensitivity.
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. All explosive compounds have a certain amount of energy required to initiate. If an explosive is too sensitive, it may go off accidentally. A safer explosive is less sensitive and will not explode if accidentally dropped or mishandled. However, such explosives are more difficult to initiate intentionally.
"Sensitivity" is the title of a number-one single by Ralph Tresvant. It was the first single from the self-titled debut album of the New Edition frontman since the split of the group. The hit song spent one week at number one on the US R&B chart. It also reached number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number eighteen in the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, British electronic duo Lemon Jelly sampled "Sensitivity" in their track '90 - A Man Like Me. In October 2004 "Sensitivity" appeared in popular videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, playing on R&B/ Soul radio station CSR 103.9. The song is also known for being covered by Tejano singer Selena, who performed it with her band Los Dinos on April 7, 1991 in San Antonio, Texas.
The controller parameters are typically matched to the process characteristics and since the process may change, it is important that the controller parameters are chosen in such a way that the closed loop system is not sensitive to variations in process dynamics. One way to characterize sensitivity is through the nominal sensitivity peak M:
$M_s = \max_{0 \leq \omega < \infty} \left| S(j \omega) \right| = \max_{0 \leq \omega < \infty} \left| \frac{1}{1 + G(j \omega)C(j \omega)} \right|$
where G(s) and C(s) denote the plant and controller's transfer function in a basic closed loop control System, using unity negative feedback.
The sensitivity function S, which appears in the above formula also describes the transfer function from measurement noise to process output, where measurement noise is fed into the system through the feedback and the process output is noisy. Hence, lower values of ∣S∣ suggest further attenuation of the measurement noise. The sensitivity function also tells us how the disturbances are influenced by feedback. Disturbances with frequencies such that ∣S(jω)∣ is less than one are reduced by an amount equal to the distance to the critical point − 1 and disturbances with frequencies such that ∣S(jω)∣ is larger than one are amplified by the feedback.
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It is important that the largest value of the sensitivity function be limited for a control system and it is common to require that the maximum value of the sensitivity function, M, be in a range of 1.3 to 2.
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.