Usually means: Device detecting physical changes, signals.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word sensor:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sensor: Merriam-Webster
  3. sensor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sensor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sensor: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sensor: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sensor, sensor: Wordnik
  8. sensor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sensor: Wiktionary
  10. sensor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sensor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sensor: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sensor: Dictionary.com
  14. sensor (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Sensor (Camouflage album), Sensor (album), Sensor (comics), Sensor: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sensor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sensor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sensor: Rhymezone
  19. Sensor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sensor: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sensor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sensor: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensor: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Sensor (technology), sensor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensor: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sensor: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. Sensor (technology), sensor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SENSOR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensor: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  5. Sensor: Data Acquisition
  6. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See sensoring as well.)

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noun:  A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

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