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📷 To increase sensitivity 😬 To make very sensitive
to hypersensitize

to hypersensitize

1 8.4
Make a device react to lower levels of light or signals
  • verb
  • /ˌhaɪpərˈsɛnsaɪtaɪz/
  • Specialized
: 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 oversensitize
vsto hypersensitize
1 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
to photosensitize
vsto hypersensitize
  • Specialized
1 9.7

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

increases sensitivity so it responds to lower light or signal levels

How Sensitive

to hypersensitize
  • Specialized
1 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.