Sensor vs. Censor

Sensornoun

A device or organ that detects certain external stimuli and responds in a distinctive manner.

Sensoradjective

Sensory; as, the sensor nerves.

Sensornoun

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

Sensor

In the broadest definition, a sensor is a device, module, machine, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment and send the information to other electronics, frequently a computer processor. A sensor is always used with other electronics.

Censornoun

(history) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.

Censornoun

An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.

Censornoun

One who censures or condemns.

Censornoun

(psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious.

Censorverb

(transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.

Censorverb

(transitive) To remove objectionable content.

Censornoun

One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.

Censornoun

One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; - an official in some European countries.

Censornoun

One given to fault-finding; a censurer.

Censornoun

A critic; a reviewer.

Censornoun

a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable

Censorverb

forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

Censorverb

subject to political, religious, or moral censorship;