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Sensing   /sˈɛnsɪŋ/   Listen
Sensing

noun
1.
The perception that something has occurred or some state exists.  Synonym: detection.
2.
Becoming aware of something via the senses.  Synonym: perception.



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"Sensing" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Scoop, sensing Jennifer's surrender, slid its ponderous bulk nearer and opened its mouth, leaving half an acre of lower jaw resting flush with the Island Queen's deck. Without hesitation, Jennifer stepped over the rail and vanished into ...
— Traders Risk • Roger Dee

... pull-out at not less than two hundred miles altitude. That left him one hundred eighty-three seconds in which to locate and destroy the warhead. The screen in the center of his instrument panel could show a composite image of the space in front of his ship, based on data from a number of sensing elements and detectors. He switched on an infrared scanner. A collection of spots appeared on the screen, each spot indicating by its color the temperature of the object it represented. The infrared detector gave him no range information, of course. ...
— Pushbutton War • Joseph P. Martino

... sensing this alteration in the other, made his queries all the quicker and more peremptory. He wanted to profit as much as possible from the other's lack ...
— The Winning Clue • James Hay, Jr.

... allow critical areas to be monitored continually. For example, the actual area of operations for Scuds in ODS was relatively small, but it was very difficult for then-current sensing systems to oversee. Technologies being developed in the area of microelectromechanical systems, in particular, hold promise for enabling capable and inexpensive ...
— Shock and Awe - Achieving Rapid Dominance • Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade

... darkness I stood alone, unaided, sensing the approach of an entity from some horribly remote place where all ...
— Where the World is Quiet • Henry Kuttner



Words linked to "Sensing" :   smell, hearing, smelling, lipreading, looking, sensory activity, listening, look, sense, looking at, tasting, taste



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