Crossword clues for sensor
sensor
- Electric eye, for example
- Burglar-alarm component
- Security system device
- Security system feature
- Heat detector, e.g
- Electric eye, for one
- Burglar alarm part
- Thermometer, e.g
- Motion picker-upper
- Motion detector, for example
- Gauge of heat or light, e.g
- Garage door device
- Virtual reality glove component
- USS Enterprise device
- Thermostat component
- Taste bud's purpose
- Sleep noises
- Signal-detecting device
- Signal pick-upper
- Robotic vacuum part
- Radar gun, for one
- Probe's kin
- Light or sound detector
- Light or sound detection device
- It might trigger an alarm
- It may detect motion
- It can open doors for some people
- High-tech detector
- Eye or ear
- Digital-camera part
- Calibrated component
- Burglar alarm component
- Automatic-door feature
- Alarm system part
- Alarm component
- Security device
- It picks up readings
- Part of an electric eye
- Electric eye, e.g.
- Security system part
- Motion detector, e.g
- Security system component
- It might set off a light
- Heat detector, e.g.
- Motion detector, e.g.
- Part of a security system
- Home security system component
- One picking up speed, say?
- Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it
- Photoelectric cell
- Electric eye, for instance
- Detecting device
- Device connected to a control panel
- Signaling device
- Ear or eye
- Stimulus-response device
- Impulse conveyer
- Photoelectric eye
- Perceptive device
- Light-detecting device
- Heat-detecting device, e.g.
- One detects edit in audio
- Flowers return, fed with nitrogen, I detect
- Gillette brand
- Gillette razor brand
- Detection device
- Electric eye, e.g
- Motion detector part
- Motion detector
- Quattro competitor
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sensor \Sen"sor\, a. Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1947, from an adjective (1865), a shortened form of sensory (q.v.).
Wiktionary
n. A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.
WordNet
n. any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner [syn: detector, sensing element]
Wikipedia
In the broadest definition, a sensor is an object whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment, and then provide a corresponding output. A sensor is a type of transducer; sensors may provide various types of output, but typically use electrical or optical signals. For example, a thermocouple generates a known voltage (the output) in response to its temperature (the environment). A mercury-in-glass thermometer, similarly, converts measured temperature into expansion and contraction of a liquid, which can be read on a calibrated glass tube.
Sensors are used in everyday objects such as touch-sensitive elevator buttons ( tactile sensor) and lamps which dim or brighten by touching the base, besides innumerable applications of which most people are never aware. With advances in micromachinery and easy-to-use micro controller platforms, the uses of sensors have expanded beyond the most traditional fields of temperature, pressure or flow measurement, for example into MARG sensors. Moreover, analog sensors such as potentiometers and force-sensing resistors are still widely used. Applications include manufacturing and machinery, airplanes and aerospace, cars, medicine, and robotics.it is also included in our day-to-day life.
A sensor's sensitivity indicates how much the sensor's output changes when the input quantity being measured changes. For instance, if the mercury in a thermometer moves 1 cm when the temperature changes by 1 °C, the sensitivity is 1 cm/°C (it is basically the slope Dy/Dx assuming a linear characteristic). Some sensors can also affect what they measure; for instance, a room temperature thermometer inserted into a hot cup of liquid cools the liquid while the liquid heats the thermometer. Sensors need to be designed to have a small effect on what is measured; making the sensor smaller often improves this and may introduce other advantages. Technological progress allows more and more sensors to be manufactured on a microscopic scale as microsensors using MEMS technology. In most cases, a microsensor reaches a significantly higher speed and sensitivity compared with macroscopic approaches.
Jeka Wynzorr, codenamed Sensor, is a fictional character, a superheroine in the future of the DC Comics universe, and a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
She is a snake-like alien, who was later altered by "Hypertaxis energy" and Ra's al Ghul into a semi-humanoid shape, retaining her serpent's tail but gaining a humanoid upper body.
A sensor is a device that measures a physical quantity and converts it into a signal which can be read by an observer or by an instrument.
Sensor may also refer to:
Sensor is the sixth studio album from German synthpop group Camouflage, released on May 26, 2003 by Island Records. It is the band's first album since 1995's Spice Crackers, and the first to feature Oliver Kreyssig since 1989's Meanwhile. The album charted at #26 in Germany.
Usage examples of "sensor".
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.