noun
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detect
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Our central sensors would detect any ship coming in from five thousand li out.
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He said the ground is planted with sensors that detect footsteps.
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A sensor in the appliance detects motion or touch, and starts the timer as soon as the appliance is put down.
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The vibration sensor is used to detect movement of the vehicle.
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Sensa has also developed pressure and acoustic sensors to detect the water and gas content of oil wells.
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It uses an optoelectronic sensor system and a microcomputer unit that tracks the temperature accurately.
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SkyCorder, which looks like a pager, uses a pressure sensor to gather information and a microprocessor to compile the statistics.
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The slow kinetics of antigen-antibody dissociation, unfortunately, precludes using antibodies in reversible sensors for continuous monitoring.
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Body suits are already used for virtual-reality-based applications, using sensors all over the body to detect movements.
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But as chips, mOtOrs, and sensors collapse into the invisible realms, their flexibility lingers as a distributed envirOnment.
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He has earmarked surface chemistry. sensor technology and materials research as candidates for the joint approach.
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Inside Spartan are measurements taken by lasers and pressure sensors that will provide some answers for researchers.
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Place the sensor on a flat surface and rotate it slowly through 360°.
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The brain itself has no sensors for that sort of thing, although it receives messages from sensors elsewhere in the body.
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The device is based around a humidity sensor .
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Their eyes are built with not one but hundreds of lenses, each of which concentrates light upon a sensor .
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We have sensors buried in our muscles and joints that tell us where our arm is currently located.