Sensing Meaning and Definition

Word: Sensing

How to pronounce: ˈsensɪŋ

Noun

Definitions:

1. A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch.

Example sentences: "The bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk"

2. A feeling that something is the case.

Example sentences: "She had the sense of being a political outsider"

3. A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems.

Example sentences: "He earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings"

4. A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning.

Example sentences: "It is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage"

5. A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other.

Verb

Definitions:

1. Perceive by a sense or senses.

Example sentences: "With the first frost, they could sense a change in the days"

2. (of a machine or similar device) detect.

Example sentences: "An optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor"

Synonyms:

sensitive

probing

probe

detection

Derivations:

sensed

sensory

sensor

sense

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German: Fernerkundung

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Turkish: Algılama