to sensitize
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- verb
- /ˈsɛn.sɪ.taɪz/
- Specialized
:
sensibilizar
- In the mid-twentieth century, lithography increasingly used light-sensitized, lightweight metal plates (often aluminum), making the method more affordable and easily adapted to mass production.
- sensitized plates
- sensitized to light
Examples
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Photographers must carefully sensitize their film with a special emulsion to capture the desired colors in their images.
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The trick is to stop sensitizing when it reaches the appropriate color of the appropriate sequence.
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Because film can be made of multiple layers, with each layer sensitized to a different color, a color separation process is built into the recording material.
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The printed verbal account, transmitting the artist's own words, is thus one with the photographic imprint that has formed itself via the action of light on the sensitized surface.
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The dye-sensitized solar cell, also known as the Grätzel cell, in the most widely used and efficient configuration, is formed by
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The lab technician will sensitize the photographic plate by applying a light-sensitive coating before exposure to light.
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To create vibrant prints, artists often need to sensitize the paper with a chemical solution that reacts to specific wavelengths of light.
Synonyms
Make skin, cells, or a tumor more sensitive to light
Make a device react to lower levels of light or signals
How Sensitive
Surface Forms
Morphology
sensitize = sensitive (transparent) = sensit + ize
The verb is a regular derivation meaning 'make sensitive'; the spelling change from 'sensitive' to 'sensit-' is orthographic but the semantic relation is direct.
Etymology
The word sensitize comes from the old root sens-, from sentire, meaning 'to feel', and the ending -ize meaning 'make'. In photography, to sensitize film or paper is to make it able to 'feel' light by coating it so it reacts to certain colours, which lets it record an image.