SENSING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensing mean? 

• SENSING (noun)
  The noun SENSING has 2 senses:

1. the perception that something has occurred or some state exists

2. becoming aware of something via the senses

  Familiarity information: SENSING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The perception that something has occurred or some state exists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

detection; sensing

Context example:

early detection can often lead to a cure

Hypernyms ("sensing" is a kind of...):

perception (the process of perceiving)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Becoming aware of something via the senses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

perception; sensing

Hypernyms ("sensing" is a kind of...):

sensory activity (activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sensing"):

look; looking; looking at (the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually)

hearing; listening (the act of hearing attentively)

lipreading (perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips)

taste; tasting (a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds)

smell; smelling (the act of perceiving the odor of something)

Derivation:

sense (perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles)

 Context examples 

Cinacalcet increases the sensitivity of calcium-sensing receptors on chief cells in the parathyroid gland to extracellular calcium, thereby reducing parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion.

(Cinacalcet Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon sensing DNA, AIM2 triggers the assembly of the inflammasome, culminating in interleukin maturation.

(Cytosolic DNA-Sensing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The retina is a thin layer of cells in the back of the eye that includes light-sensing photoreceptor cells and other neurons involved in transmitting visual information to the brain.

(Immune cells in the retina can spontaneously regenerate, National Institutes of Health)

Humans have 3 distinct color-sensing cones—for red, green, and blue light.

(New color vision pathway unveiled, NIH)

Normally, an infected cell spots the presence of a virus by sensing the genetic material of the virus, RNA in the case of flu.

('Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza, University of Cambridge )

It acts as a proton-sensing receptor stimulating inositol phosphate formation and is involved in pH homeostasis.

(G Protein-Coupled Receptor 68, NCI Thesaurus)

In mouse studies, the scientists discovered an S. aureus sensing system that must function for the bacteria to grow in the gut.

(Study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria, National Institutes of Health)

The parts of the body involved in sensing smell, including the nose and many parts of the brain.

(Olfactory system, NCI Dictionary)

These results suggest that during embryonic development, high levels of Bmp7 at one end of the basilar papilla signal the formation of low-frequency-sensing hair cells.

(Hearing different frequencies, NIH)

Nanocantilevers coated with antibodies, for example, will bend from the mass added when substrate binds to its antibody, providing a detector capable of sensing the presence of single molecules of clinical importance.

(Nanocantilever, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)