ISPE Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Terminology

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Sensor

A peripheral input device which senses some variable in the system environment, such as temperature, and converts it to an electrical signal which can be further converted to a digital signal for processing by the computer.

Publication Source: FDA Glossary of Computerized System and Software Development Technology

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