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subsensitive

subsensitive adjective: insufficiently sensitive.

Adjective

subsensitive (not comparable)

  1. Insufficiently sensitive.
    • In the case of hyperbolic Michaelian response, the range of the signal is ∼81 [38 ] and for subsensitive amplification, it is about a few thousand [38 ].2016 January 27, “Deciphering Parameter Sensitivity in the BvgAS Signal Transduction”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
    Antonyms:
    supersensitive

Antonyms of subsensitive

Origin of subsensitive

From sub- + sensitive.

Questions about subsensitive

What does subsensitive mean?
Subsensitive means insufficiently sensitive.
What part of speech is subsensitive?
Subsensitive is an adjective.

Words near subsensitive in the dictionary

  1. subsensation
  2. subsensations
  3. subsense
  4. subsenses
  5. subsensible
  6. subsensitive
  7. subsensitivity
  8. subsensory
  9. subsentence
  10. subsentences
  11. subsentential

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