SENSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensed mean? 

• SENSED (adjective)
  The adjective SENSED has 1 sense:

1. detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues

  Familiarity information: SENSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Detected by instinct or inference rather than by recognized perceptual cues

Synonyms:

perceived; sensed

Context example:

a perceived threat

Similar:

detected (perceived or discerned)

 Context examples 

There is considerable evidence that direct effects of increased mechanical stress are sensed within the ventricular wall and that signal is critical for the generation of growth responses.

(NFAT Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

He sensed the evil in him, and feared the extended hand and the attempts at soft-spoken speech.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Anyone who has ever sensed that a person is sick simply by looking at their face has experienced the wealth of information conveyed by face color.

(Rosy health and sickly green: color associations play robust role in reading faces, National Institutes of Health)

This portion of the electromagnetic spectrum can usually be sensed as heat.

(Infrared Radiation, NCI Thesaurus)

It was the elusive spirit of poetry itself that he sensed and sought after but could not capture.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After all, pure spirit was unknowable, a thing to be sensed and divined only; nor could it express itself in terms of itself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They found that starved worms exposed to a magnetic field that was oriented opposite to the local Earth’s magnetic field reversed their burrowing behavior; they migrated up, suggesting they sensed magnetic fields.

(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)

What of the thin and rotten ice he had felt under his feet all day, it seemed that he sensed disaster close at hand, out there ahead on the ice where his master was trying to drive him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A device for sensing radiation, forces, chemicals, or biological agents, in which some portion of a device operates at the nanoscale, for example, by having receptors into which the particular molecules to be sensed fit.

(Nanosensor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

White Fang sensed the coming calamity, even before there was tangible evidence of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)