Usually means: Ability to detect true positives.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitivity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sensitivity: Merriam-Webster
  3. sensitivity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sensitivity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sensitivity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sensitivity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sensitivity, sensitivity: Wordnik
  8. sensitivity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sensitivity: Wiktionary
  10. sensitivity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sensitivity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sensitivity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sensitivity: Dictionary.com
  14. sensitivity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sensitivity (control systems), Sensitivity (disambiguation), Sensitivity (electronics), Sensitivity (explosives), Sensitivity (human), Sensitivity (physiology), Sensitivity (song), Sensitivity (statistics), Sensitivity (test), Sensitivity (tests), Sensitivity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sensitivity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sensitivity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sensitivity: Rhymezone
  19. Sensitivity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sensitivity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sensitivity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sensitivity: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitivity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Sensitivity: Investopedia
  3. sensitivity: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sensitivity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitivity: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sensitivity: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Sensitivity: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Sensitivity: Visionary
  8. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  9. sensitivity: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  11. sensitivity: Medical dictionary
  12. Sensitivity: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Visionary, for the Study of Vision (No longer online)
  2. Sensitivity: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Sensitivity: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)

Tech (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. sensitivity: Canadian Soil Information System
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Sensitivity: Data Acquisition
  8. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  9. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  10. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  11. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See sensitivities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.
noun:  (biology) The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
noun:  (biology, medicine, of a pathogen) Vulnerability to medical treatment: Synonym of susceptibility.
noun:  (statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true positive being correctly identified.
noun:  (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
noun:  (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

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