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😬 To make very sensitive 📷 To increase sensitivity
to hypersensitize

to hypersensitize

8.4
Make a device react to lower levels of light or signals
  • verb
  • /ˌhaɪpərˈsɛnsaɪtaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : hipersensibilizar
  • The team hypersensitized the device to detect dimmer lights.
  • hypersensitized film

Examples

  • They hypersensitize the sensors for better performance.

  • Researchers hypersensitized the detector to improve its performance in low-signal environments.

  • The technician needed to hypersensitize the film to capture images in very dim light.

  • Special chemicals are used to hypersensitize sensors for scientific experiments.

  • The scientists decided to hypersensitize the camera sensors to capture the faint light of distant stars more effectively.

  • By choosing to hypersensitize the photographic film, the team was able to record details that were previously invisible in the dark sky.

  • To improve the quality of the images, the photographer planned to hypersensitize the film before the night shoot.

Synonyms

to sensitize
vsto hypersensitize
  • Specialized
1 7.3

Make a material react to light by coating it with a special chemical

increases sensitivity to detect lower light or signal levels
to photosensitize
vsto hypersensitize
  • Specialized
9.7

Make skin, cells, or a tumor more sensitive to light

increases sensitivity so it responds to lower light or signal levels
to oversensitize
vsto hypersensitize
8.0

To make someone or something too sensitive to things like light and noise

increases sensitivity specifically so detection works at lower signal levels

How Sensitive

to hypersensitize
  • Specialized
8.4
to sensitize
  • Specialized
1 7.3

Surface Forms

hypersensitize infinitive
hypersensitized past
hypersensitized past participle
hypersensitizing present participle
hypersensitizes third person singular

Morphology

hypersensitize = sensitize (transparent) = hyper + sensit + ize

The technical sense still follows the same transparent structure: 'hyper-' plus 'sensitize'.

Etymology

The word hypersensitize has the prefix hyper-, as in hyperactive, meaning 'too much', and sensitize, from sense, as in sensitive, meaning 'to feel' or 'to detect'. So to hypersensitize film or a sensor is like turning up its sensitivity so it can respond to very low light or weak signals.