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sensor
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noun
(= detector)
any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
coil
Noun
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A coil is a long object in circular piles "wound continuously round one point" (Oxford Illustrated Dictionary).
s are usually stored as coils.
coil
Verb
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If you coil something, you wind it cylindrically or spirally around a common center.
The machine coils the wire at a very high speed.