Associations to the word «Sensor»

Wiktionary

SENSOR, noun. A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

Dictionary definition

SENSOR, noun. 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.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats