sensitivity🔊

The quality or state of being sensitive; sensitiveness.

(biology) The ability of an organism or organ to respond to external stimuli.

(vulnerability of a pathogen to treatment) {{lb|en|biology|medicine|of a (pathogen)}} (Vulnerability) to medical treatment: (id=vulnerability of a pathogen to treatment).

(statistics) The probability, in a binary classification test, of a {{w|true positive}} being correctly identified.

(electronics) The degree of response of an instrument to a change in an input signal.

(photography) The degree of response of a film etc. to light of a specified wavelength.