sensingn.
/ˈsɛnsɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsɛnsɪŋ/ 1. The action of sense v. (in early use chiefly in sense 1); an instance of this.Somewhat rare before 19th cent.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] > physical sensation
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1613 R. N. Christians Manna ii. viii. 183 The Fathers were so far from giuing any such caution for the sensing of their writings.
1656 W. Lucy Exam. Errours Two First Chapters Hobbes Leviathan v. 84 When we have discerned things by our senses, & the act of sensing (pardon that word sensing, it is unusual, yet significant) is done.
1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 6 It is another subject (the sensing of the word Puritan) that I am speaking of.
1732 A. Le Mercier Church Hist. Geneva iv. vi. 167 A sober sensing of them according to the simplicity of Faith.
1835 Boston Observer 12 Feb. 50/1 He especially excels in that sensing of a subject, which seems to be the combined and proportional action of every faculty.
1892 Wade's Fibre & Fabric 20 Aug. 304/1 We have tried to get our readers to understand the deadly workings of..enthusiasm and patriotism, but, as their sensing is so pleasant, people will not see their deadly effect.
1906 S. S. Laurie Synthetica I. ii. 18 The feeling of an object by a subject-being or entity and the re-flexion of it into its cosmic locus I call rudimentary sensing or sensation.
1984 A. Nemerov in B. Weigl & T. R. Hummer Imagination as Glory 14 A sensing of alien modes of experience.
2008 G. A. Mazis Humans, Animals, Machines iii. 62 His sensing that this fabric of the world..will be transformed.
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a. U.S. Military. An observation of the point of impact of an artillery shot with respect to the target so as to direct subsequent fire. Now chiefly historical.
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1912 Field Artillery Jrnl. 2 578 During the delivery of fire the Chief of the 5th Section should observe the target at all times, and should record his sensing of each shot.
1937 Sun (Baltimore) 16 Aug. 16/2 Transfers to the targets will be made by means of a high burst with shrapnel, the bursts being brought to a check point at a particular elevation and range by means of sensings from lateral observation points.
1940 E. S. Nichols in Aeronautics (National Aeronautics Council, Dunellen, New Jersey) Nov. vii. 74 Conducting an Artillery adjustment by communicating ‘sensings’ by means of changing the line of flight of the autogiro.
1962 Ordnance Techn. Terminol. (U.S. Army Ordnance School) 269/2 Sensing, the direction of a point of burst or impact, or centers of burst or impact with respect to the target; such as over, short, air or graze.
2013 J. R. Walker Bracketing Enemy iv. 65 Another artillery officer..in describing the difficulties encountered when adjusting fire by sound on New Georgia, noted that forward observers frequently made their initial sensings by sound.
b. The action of a machine, instrument, or similar device in detecting or measuring a circumstance, entity, etc., esp. in response to a physical stimulus. Frequently attributive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > instrument for detection > [noun] > sensor > action of
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1914 Amer. Machinist 40 638/2 The electric follow-up system..relieves the gyro wheel itself from all the work, using it merely as a sensing element.
1921 U.S. Patent 1,376,572 2/2 Now will be described the sensing and analyzing mechanism.
1955 Flight Test Man. (Advisory Group on Aeronaut. Res. & Devel., NATO) I. iia. x. 15/1 The collection methods of determining liquid water content below freezing..are essentially based upon the sensing of icing.
1962 F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 185 (caption) Infrared vidicon tube... It could also be employed for horizon sensing.
1977 Dædalus Fall 38 All the rest of the electromagnetic spectrum became available to astronomers only when the development of sounding rockets and artificial satellites made it possible to send their sensing instruments above the atmosphere.
1999 Chronicle (Centralia, Washington) 13 Nov. b5/4 A helicopter with a thermal sensing device continued to search the hills for any pieces of hot wreckage.
2010 Nature 30 Sept. 542/2 The sensing of ultrasmall amounts of chemical or biological substances.
c. The action of determining from which of two possible opposite directions a radio signal originates. Also called direction-finding and sense finding. Frequently attributive.
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1929 Salt Lake Tribune 19 May e7/2 The second or ‘sensing’ antenna then is placed in the circuit to determine on which side of the loop the pilot is flying.
1961 C. H. Cotter Princ. & Pract. Radio Direction Finding ii. 36 The device provided to resolve the 180° ambiguity is known as a sensefinder, and the process of doing so is known as sensing.
1972 Radio Sci. 7 1025/2 The successively higher modes..require different sensing methods and an increase in the minimum number of antennas.
2011 M. S. Nolan Fund. Air Traffic Control (ed. 5) 613/1 Direction finder—a radio receiver equipped with a directional sensing antenna used to take bearings on a radio transmitter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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