sensitivity

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Singular
sensitivity

Plural
sensitivities

sensitivity (plural sensitivities)

  1. The quality of being sensitive
  2. The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli
  3. (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
  4. (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
  5. (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

[edit] Translations

the quality of being sensitive
the ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli
the proportion of positive individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary test
the degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal
the degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength
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