sensitive measurement

collocation in English

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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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measurement
noun
uk
/ˈmeʒ.ə.mənt/us
/ˈmeʒ.ɚ.mənt/
the act or process ...
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(Definition ofsensitiveandmeasurementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In both of the above regimes, the mean parasite burden/host was found to be a moresensitivemeasurement of infection success than the percentage of hosts infected.
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It did so because it considered this provided a moresensitivemeasurementof relative need for health care including social deprivation.
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It would be necessary to construct a more flexible system which, whilst retaining the block grant idea, would include a fairlysensitivemeasurementof marginal need, probably every year.
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Therefore, tryptophan fluorescence can be a verysensitivemeasurementof the conformational state of individual tryptophan residues.
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This separation allows a more reliable collection andsensitivemeasurementof nucleic acid amounts.
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Small percentage increases make a difference in regard to sensitive measurements like purity.
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Pu in 1971 is not confirmed by recent, more sensitive measurements using the method of accelerator mass spectrometry.
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He has pioneered techniques for sensitive measurements beyond the quantum noise limit, for the improvement of optical sensors, interferometers, optical communication and data storage.
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Such a field is extremely weak and requires extremely sensitive measurements to be detected.
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In some cases, light and other electromagnetic waves can be thought to be moving instantaneously, but for long distances and very sensitive measurements their finite speed has noticeable effects.
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