sensor

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• UK: /ˈsɛn.sə/
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• US: /ˈsɛn.sɚ/
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• homophone: censer
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• homophone: censor
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• homophone: senser
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• rhymes with -ɛnsə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: S EH1 N S ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Originated 1925–30, formed as a Latin loanword from sentiō (“to feel”) + -tor (“-er”). By surface analysis, sense + -or.

42 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: حَسَّاس (ḥassās) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Arabic: جِهَازُ اِسْتِشْعَار (jihāzu istišʕār) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Basque: sentsore — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Bulgarian: се́нзор (sénzor) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Bulgarian: датчик (datčik) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Chinese Mandarin: 傳感器 /传感器 (chuángǎnqì) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Danish: føler — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Danish: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Esperanto: sensilo — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Estonian: andur — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Finnish: anturi — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Finnish: tunnistin — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Finnish: aistin — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Finnish: tuntoelin — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Finnish: sensori — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• French: détecteur — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• French: capteur — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• German: Sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Hungarian: érzékelő — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Irish: braiteoir — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Italian: sensore — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Japanese: センサー (sensā) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Japanese: センサ (sensa) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Kazakh: бергіш (bergış) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Korean: 센서 (senseo) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Macedonian: сетилник (setilnik) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Māori: paerongo — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Māori: pūoko — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Norwegian Bokmål: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Polish: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Portuguese: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Romanian: senzor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Russian: се́нсор (sɛ́nsor) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Serbo-Croatian: osjetnik — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Serbo-Croatian: osjetilo — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Spanish: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Swedish: sensor — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Turkish: duyarga — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Turkish: sensör — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Ukrainian: се́нсор (sénsor) — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli
• Vietnamese: cảm biến — device or organ that detects certain external stimuli