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• Sentient beings (Buddhism) — Sentient being is a technical term within English Buddhist discourse and worldview. Different Buddhist schools, yana, key meditators and scholars, as well as texts, commentaries, teaching tools, and analogies provide a widely varied view of the… …   Wikipedia

• sentient — sentient, sensitive, impressible, impressionable, responsive, susceptible can all mean readily affected by stimuli, usually external stimuli. Sentient implies a capacity to be affected through the senses; it may describe inclusively the lowest… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Sentient Networks — was a San Jose, California based supplier of Asynchronous Transfer Mode and Frame Relay central office concentrators and switches.Market spaceSentient made products for internet service providers, inter exchange carriers, and Regional Bell… …   Wikipedia

• Sentient (disambiguation) — Sentient may refer to:* Sentience, the ability to perceive subjectively * Sentient computing, a form of ubiquitous computing which uses sensors to perceive its environment and react accordingly * Sentient Information Systems, a Dutch software… …   Wikipedia

• Sentient computing — is a form of ubiquitous computing which uses sensors to perceive its environment and react accordingly. A common use of the sensors is to construct a world model which allows location aware or context aware applications to be constructed. One… …   Wikipedia

• Sentient — Éditeur Psygnosis Développeur Psygnosis Date de sortie 1997 (Europe, États Unis) Genre Aventure Mode de jeu Un j …   Wikipédia en Français

• Sentient — Sen ti*ent, a. [L. sentiens, entis, p. pr. of sentire to discern or perceive by the senses. See {Sense}.] Having a faculty, or faculties, of sensation and perception. Specif. (Physiol.), especially sensitive; as, the sentient extremities of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Sentient — Sen ti*ent, n. One who has the faculty of perception; a sentient being. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• sentient — index conscious (aware), perceptive, responsive, sensitive (discerning) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• sentient — 1630s, capable of feeling, from L. sentientem (nom. sentiens) feeling, prp. of sentire to feel (see SENSE (Cf. sense)). Meaning conscious (of something) is from 1815 …   Etymology dictionary

• sentient — [adj] conscious able to recognize, alert, apperceptive, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, informed, in on*, in the right mind, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, recognizing, responsive, seeing, sensitive to,… …   New thesaurus