Illustration: At a Japanese public washroom sink, a child cautiously places both hands beneath an automatic faucet. A small dark sensor window on the faucet faces the hands, and a stream of water falls directly onto them despite nobody touching a handle.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

センサー

sensaa

sensor

Example sentences

  1. モーションセンサーを取とり付つけたんだ。

    I set up motion sensors.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. エスカレーターは駅えきにより上のぼりのみか、上下じょうげとも完備かんびされている駅えきと2タイプあり、全駅ぜんえきともセンサー式自動運転しきじどううんてんである。

    The escalators may be up only or up-and-down, depending on the station, but all of them are automatic escalators with sensors.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 公園内こうえんないは京都府警きょうとふけいや皇宮警察こうぐうけいさつが常つねに見回みまわりをしていて、京都御所きょうとごしょや仙洞御所せんとうごしょの塀へいに近ちかづくとセンサーが反応はんのうし、すぐに注意ちゅういされる。

    The Kyoto Prefectural Police and Imperial Guard always patrol the park; anyone who comes close to the wall of the Kyoto Imperial Palace or the Sento Imperial Palace is detected by a sensor, and receives a warning.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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