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

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky