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