Sensitive
Meanings and phrases
sensitive
- responsive to physical stimuli
- being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
- able to feel or perceive; sensible
- hurting; sore; raw; tender
- of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
sensitive
- someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; medium; spiritualist
adj.
- readily affected by various agents
- It is also highly sensitive to light, which is its primary synchronization.
- He was highly sensitive to noise and preferred absolute quiet when writing.
- Mosquitoes are also highly sensitive to changes in precipitation and humidity.
n.
- beautiful spreading fern of eastern North America and eastern Asia naturalized in western Europe; pinnately divided fronds show a slight tendency to fold when touched; pinnules enclose groups of sori in beadlike lobes; bead fern; Onoclea sensibilis
n.
- tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia; partridge pea; wild sensitive plant; Chamaecrista fasciculata; Cassia fasciculata
n.
- prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled; touch-me-not; shame plant; live-and-die; humble plant; action plant; Mimosa pudica
- semi-climbing prickly evergreen shrub of tropical America having compound leaves sensitive to light and touch; Mimosa sensitiva
n.
- tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia; partridge pea; sensitive pea; Chamaecrista fasciculata; Cassia fasciculata
E.g.
- Cobalt-based catalysts are more sensitive than their iron counterparts.
- The more sensitive the detector, the narrower its optimal working point.
- The Advanced Virgo aims to be 10 times more sensitive than the initial Virgo.
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- In contrast, P−2 is very sensitive to steric factors.
- Although tough, an elephant's skin is very sensitive.
- Chocolate is very sensitive to temperature and humidity.
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- facilitating confidential exchange of sensitive information.
- The controversy around the public disclosure of sensitive information is not new.
- Unauthorized access is a concern and can result in users gaining access to sensitive information.
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- SQUIDs are the most sensitive magnetic sensors known.
- The most sensitive thing we do.
- Of the MRI sequences, diffuse-weighted imaging sequences are most sensitive.
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- It could have been portrayed in a less sensitive light.
- It is less sensitive than pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN).
- 61 MHz when protium is at 400 MHz) and is much less sensitive.
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- She loves music and is extremely sensitive to sound.
- "P. hastatus" has an extremely sensitive sense of smell.
- Its ears are pointy and triangular, and extremely sensitive.
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- This is particularly true for lawyers who take up politically sensitive cases.
- In Francoist Spain Maravall avoided some of the more politically sensitive topics of his work.
- Deemed too politically sensitive, the scene was re-edited and the branded posterior featured "SB" (for Shaw Brothers) instead.
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- These are sensitive areas because they protect public drinking water.
- There are other special procedures used in sensitive areas which reduce the power of Parliament.
- The goal of the plan is to mitigate human impacts to ecologically sensitive areas within the park.
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- If encryption keys are not managed and stored properly, highly sensitive data may be leaked.
- This naturally implies that the threat of sensitive data loss is minimised through salting hashes.
- The act of storing large amounts of sensitive data on physical storage media naturally raises concerns of security and theft.
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- The forest is protected as a section of the environmentally sensitive Pine Barrens.
- It has not yet determined how this will be done in the most environmentally sensitive fashion.
- The area is environmentally sensitive, especially the reed beds on the north bank and the flora and fauna of Yellow Island in the middle of the river.
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- This type of construction is particularly sensitive to earthquakes.
- Compact fluorescent lamps are particularly sensitive to switching cycles.
- Pre-clinical studies suggest that T-cells are particularly sensitive to nelarabine.
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- The film was noted for creating social awareness on sensitive issues such as rape and domestic violence.
- Opposition to the goals of Hitler is a moral touchstone that has implications for several sensitive issues.
- Weiquan lawyers have also challenged the application of state secret laws, which are sometimes used to prosecute individuals who disseminate information on politically sensitive issues.