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- Dictionarysen·sor/ˈsensər/
noun
- 1. a device which detects or measures a physical property and records, indicates, or otherwise responds to it: "to ensure greater response and surer handling, the engineers used electronic sensors to monitor each wheel"
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a device that discovers and reacts to changes in such things as movement, heat, and light: motion / radiation / humidity sensors.
The meaning of SENSOR is a device that responds to a physical stimulus (such as heat, light, sound, pressure, magnetism, or a particular motion) and transmits a resulting impulse (as for measurement or operating a control).
A sensor is a device that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The input can be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure or any number of other environmental phenomena.
In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem that detects events or changes in its environment and sends the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor.
a device that discovers and reacts to changes in such things as movement, heat, and light: motion / radiation / humidity sensors.
An electronic device that measures changes in a physical quality (like light or temperature) is a sensor. Your kitchen smoke alarm has a sensor that detects the smoky evidence of your badly burned toast.
SENSOR meaning: a device that detects or senses heat, light, sound, motion, etc., and then reacts to it in a particular way.
