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
English: detector, sensor, sensing element
Less certain link between this word and this sense.
penderiams
detector, sensing element, sensor
Rare
#199,681 of the corpus · 0 per million words · 134 occurrences
From deria (peN-) · rare, #33,115