sensitivity

sensibilité

Capacité à percevoir de petits changements, des émotions ou des influences, ou à y réagir.

En anglais simple : The ability to notice or respond to small changes, feelings, or things that affect you.

• Her skin sensitivity makes some soaps uncomfortable.
• He showed great sensitivity to her feelings.
• The device’s sensitivity allows it to detect tiny movements.

Comment l'utiliser : sensitivity to something (The medicine increased her sensitivity to sunlight.)

Synonymes : sensitiveness, responsiveness

Contraires : insensitivity

Expressions courantes : sensitivity to light, show sensitivity, skin sensitivity

sensibilité

Amplitude ou vitesse du déplacement de la vue ou du personnage dans un jeu quand on bouge un dispositif de commande.

En anglais simple : How far or fast your game view or character moves when you move a control device.

• Try lowering the mouse sensitivity.
• High sensitivity lets me turn quickly in the game.
• She adjusted the controller sensitivity to improve her aim.

Expressions courantes : mouse sensitivity, adjust sensitivity, high sensitivity

sensibilité

Proportion de personnes ou de cas réellement concernés qu’un test détecte correctement.

En anglais simple : How often a test correctly finds the condition in people or cases that actually have it.

• The test has high sensitivity.
• Researchers measured sensitivity using known positive cases.
• Increasing sensitivity may also produce more false positive results.

Synonymes : true positive rate, recall

Expressions courantes : test sensitivity, high sensitivity, sensitivity and specificity