sensitivity

sensibilità

Capacità di percepire piccoli cambiamenti, sentimenti o stimoli, oppure di reagire a essi.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Come si usa: sensitivity to something (The medicine increased her sensitivity to sunlight.)

Sinonimi: sensitiveness, responsiveness

Contrari: insensitivity

Espressioni comuni: sensitivity to light, show sensitivity, skin sensitivity

sensibilità

Quanto o a quale velocità si muovono la visuale o il personaggio del gioco quando si muove un dispositivo di controllo.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Espressioni comuni: mouse sensitivity, adjust sensitivity, high sensitivity

sensibilità

Proporzione di persone o casi realmente interessati da una condizione che un test riconosce correttamente.

In inglese semplice: 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.

Sinonimi: true positive rate, recall

Espressioni comuni: test sensitivity, high sensitivity, sensitivity and specificity