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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 sen·si·tive /ˈsɛn(t)sətɪv, ˈsɛn(t)stəv/
 (a.)敏感的,靈敏的,過敏的,感光的

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 sen·si·tive /ˈsɛn(t)sətɪv, ˈsɛn(t)stɪv/ 形容詞
 敏感的,過敏的,有感覺的,易受傷的(皮膚等),神經過敏的,靈敏的,感光的,能感受的,敏感性

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 sensitive
 程式有感誤差

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 sensitive
 光敏

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 sensitive
 敏感的; 感測的

From: Network Terminology

 sensitive
 敏感 相關

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Sen·si·tive a.
 1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
    She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.   --Macaulay.
 3. (a) Mech. Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. (b) Chem. & Photog. Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
 4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]
    A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.   --Hammond.
 5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
 Sensitive fern Bot., an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together.
 Sensitive flame Physics, a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch.
 Sensitive joint vetch Bot., an annual leguminous herb (Aeschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
 Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.
 Sensitive plant. Bot. (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or Mimosa sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (Cassia nictitans, and Cassia Chamaecrista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.
 -- Sen*si*tive*ly adv. -- Sen*si*tive*ness, n.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sensitive
      adj 1: responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are
             sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter";
             "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" [ant: insensitive]
      2: having acute mental or emotional sensibility; "sensitive to
         the local community and its needs" [ant: insensitive]
      3: able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible
         creatures"; "the more sensible p enveloping(a),
          shrouding(a), concealing,& (concealing by enclosing or
         wrapping as if in something that is not solid; "the
         enveloping darkness"; "hills concealed by shrouding
         mists") arts of the skin" [syn: sensible] [ant: insensible]
      4: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sore, tender]
      5: used officially of classified information or matters
         affecting national security