sensor

Other forms of sensor

plural

sensors·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sensor

What does sensor mean?

sensor 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".

How many syllables are in sensor?

sensor has 2 syllables: sen-sor. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /ˈsɛnsɚ/.

What is another word for sensor?

Close synonyms include detector, sensing element. 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 sensor a common word?

sensor is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sensor?

2 words rhyme with sensor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.