sensing element

Questions about sensing element

What does sensing element mean?

sensing element means "any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner".

What is another word for sensing element?

Close synonyms include detector, sensor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sensing element a common word?

sensing element is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.