sensitivity

  1. Noun.  The quality of being sensitive.
  2. Noun.  The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.
  3. Noun.  (statistics) The proportion of individuals in a population that will be correctly identified in a binary classification test.
  4. Noun.  (electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.
  5. Noun.  (photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.

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