TPPM _The Gift_: Sentence 7: sensitivity

[Glenn Scheper]

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      7 entries found for sensitivity.

            sen·si·tiv·i·ty    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (sns-tv-t)
            n. pl. sen·si·tiv·i·ties 
              The quality or condition of being sensitive. 
              The capacity of an organ or organism to respond to stimulation. 
              Electronics. The degree of response of a receiver or instrument to 
              an incoming signal or to a change in the incoming signal; the 
              signal strength required by an FM tuner to reduce noise and 
              distortion. 
              The degree of response of a plate or film to light, especially to 
              light of a specified wavelength. 

      sen·si·tiv·i·ty (sns-tv-t)
      n. 
        The quality or condition of being sensitive. 
        The capacity of an organ or organism to respond to a stimulus. 
        The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly 
        identified when administered a test designed to detect a particular 
        disease, calculated as the number of true positive results divided by 
        the number of true positive and false negative results. 

      Main Entry: sen·si·tiv·i·ty
      Pronunciation: "sen(t)-s&-'tiv-&t-E
      Function: noun
      Inflected Form: plural -ties
      : the quality or state of being sensitive: as a : the capacity of an 
      organism or sense organ to respond to stimulation : IRRITABILITY b : the 
      quality or state of being hypersensitive 

      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.

      sensitivity
      n 1: (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; "sensitivity to 
      pain" [syn: sensitiveness, sensibility] 2: the ability to respond to 
      physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences; "a 
      galvanometer of extreme sensitivity" 3: sensitivity to emotional feelings 
      (of self and others) [syn: sensitiveness] 4: susceptibility to a pathogen 
      [syn: predisposition] 5: the ability to respond to affective changes in 
      your interpersonal environment [syn: sensitiveness] [ant: insensitivity]


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