sensitivity

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sensitivities

1. 1.The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.

   • In any event, the incident, and the media attention it attracted, highlights the sensitivity of language politics in Singapore and is reflective of the fact that this sensitivity extends to campus life.

2. 2.The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.

   • A coenzyme that exists in all living cells, NAD+ plays a central role in the body’s biological processes, such as regulating cellular energy, increasing insulin sensitivity and reversing mitochondrial dysfunction.

3. 3.The probability, in a binary classification test, of a true positive being correctly identified.

4. 4.The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.

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