sensitive indicator
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsensitiveandindicator
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sensitive
adjective
uk/ˈsen.sɪ.tɪv/us/ˈsen.sə.t̬ɪv/
easily upset by the things people say or do, or causing people to be upset, embarrassed, ...
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indicator
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.dɪ.keɪ.tər/us/ˈɪn.də.keɪ.t̬ɚ/
something that shows what a situation ...
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(Definition ofsensitiveandindicatorfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsensitive indicator
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It would appear that this assay is asensitiveindicatorof infection.
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Duration of marriage appears to be a moresensitiveindicatorof the timing of births than does the age of the women.
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In the developing countries infant mortality still remains asensitiveindicatorof socioeconomic standards.
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At the population level, chronological age is asensitiveindicatorof health status, whether measured by mortality, disability or self-rated health.
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Maternal report of very small birth size is not asensitiveindicatorof low birth weight.
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However, no combination produced a moresensitiveindicatorthan that provided by individual variables, implying that a common factor was responsible for these patterns.
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The age that the respondents actually felt was a moresensitiveindicatorthan chronological age of several of the socio-demographic variables.
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Therefore, from a methodological point of view, the double-sentence task can be considered a moresensitiveindicatorof the emergence of children's understanding.
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While age at menarche seems a reasonablysensitiveindicatorof child welfare, adult stature is not.
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He examines the ideas proffered by the theorist and argues that they amount 'to a claim that music is the mostsensitiveindicatorof social change' (p. 7).
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In addition to mortality, the incidence of height loss was examined because it could be a moresensitiveindicatorof water stress or breakage caused by falling debris.
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However, it is not asensitiveindicatorfor comparative analysis, so two other measures of adoption were devised to provide an unprecedentedly direct linkage to scale of operations.
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Our reasoning was that the mostsensitiveindicatorof the improved health and nutrition in the treated children would be the improvement in their instructionfollowing skill.
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Immunisation uptake provides asensitiveindicatorfor performance of the provision of immunisation services, but it measures the route through which our goals will be reached.
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The extent and distribution of sea ice in the polar regions is asensitiveindicatorof global climate change.
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Median household income is a politicallysensitiveindicator.
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The test may be useful as asensitiveindicatorof trauma induced by brain injury to laboratory rats.
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Population losses are the moresensitiveindicatorof natural capital than are species extinction in the accounting of ecosystem services.
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The harmonics of fault frequency is a moresensitiveindicatorof a bearing outer race fault.
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