Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet INSENSITIVE

Definition av INSENSITIVE

1. okänslig, känslolös

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• Shoes are attached on the palmar surface (ground side) of the hooves, usually nailed through the insensitive hoof wall that is anatomically akin to the human toenail, although much larger and thicker.
• HMX, also called octogen, is a powerful and relatively insensitive nitroamine high explosive chemically related to RDX.
• A hydrophone can also detect airborne sounds but is insensitive of them because it is designed to match the acoustic impedance of water, a denser fluid than air.
• C-4 is relatively insensitive and can be detonated only by the shock wave from a detonator or blasting cap.
• A "barbarian" may also be an individual reference to an aggressive, brutal, cruel, and insensitive person, particularly one who is also dim-witted, while cultures, customs and practices adopted by peoples and countries perceived to be primitive may be referred to as "barbaric".
• Le Mesurier disliked both schools intensely, citing insensitive teaching methods and an inability to accept individualism.
• He has been accused of making antisemitic and racially insensitive remarks as well as inciting incidents of violence.
• Photographic processing transforms the latent image into a visible image, makes this permanent and renders it insensitive to light.
• If demand is inelastic, the good's demand is relatively insensitive to price, with quantity changing less than price.
• One drawback of Marconi's approach was his use of a coherer as a receiver, which, while providing for permanent records, was also slow (after each received Morse code dot or dash, it had to be tapped to restore operation), insensitive, and not very reliable.
• In 1840, he discovered that the silver halides, natively insensitive to red and yellow light, became sensitive to that part of the spectrum in proportion to their exposure to blue, violet and ultraviolet light, allowing daguerreotypes and other photographic materials to be developed by bathing in strong red or yellow light rather than by chemical treatment.
• Triggering sequences are used in the mining industry for the detonation of ANFO and other cheap, bulk, and insensitive explosives that cannot be fired by only a blasting cap or similar item.
• He also held the British responsible for precipitating the 1857 rebellion by being insensitive to local customs, citing the earlier case of the Vellore mutiny.
• As Republican Whip, Nickles called for the resignation of fellow Republican Trent Lott as majority leader after Lott made remarks praising Strom Thurmond that seemed insensitive to the issue of racial segregation.
• The British company also faced major flak for an advertising campaign attacking the Hindu pilgrimage site at Kumbh Mela, calling it a "place where old people get abandoned," a move that was termed racist and insensitive.
• Surprisingly she backed pro-Euro Kenneth Clarke in the 1997 Conservative Party leadership election when she was expected to back William Hague or John Redwood who she backed two years earlier for the party leadership, describing him as "a bad-mannered, insensitive snob whose remarks on single mothers were a disaster".
• The philosophy of off-line quality control, designing products and processes so that they are insensitive ("robust") to parameters outside the design engineer's control.
• Domesticated chickpea is considered vernalization insensitive (it can flower at all times of the year), whereas wild C.
• a displeasing piece of work, pseudo-sophisticated, expensive and brash in approach, vulgar in taste and insensitive in outlook.
• Benson forcefully defended his work against some readers' contentions that the cartoon was insensitive.

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