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Sensor vs Sensing - What's the difference?

sensor | sensing |

As nouns the difference between sensor and sensing

is that sensor is a device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner while sensing is the act of sensation.

As a verb sensing is

present participle of lang=en.

sensor

English

(wikipedia sensor)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

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    sensing

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of sensation.
  • * 1987 , Brian Patrick Hendley, Plato, Time, and Education
    • Second, the list of kinds of sensings that Socrates gave was thought to be an odd one. It included pleasures, pains, desires, and fears, as well as the more familiar examples of sight, hearing, smell, and the sensings of cold and of heat.

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