Sentence examples for sensitive gauge from inspiring English sources

Lactate is a sensitive gauge of physical effort: muscles produce it whenever they run out of oxygen to consume.

Here, instead of measuring the width of the indentation after the indenter has been removed, a sensitive gauge indicates the depth to which the indenter sinks into the surface under a given load.

Dolnick has retained his strengths — his sensitive gauge for emotional states and his empathy — but his writing is more taut, more piquant, not only observant but wry in its depiction of human fallibility.

Bond yields, the most sensitive gauge of the market's inflation worries, edged higher ahead of the employment report.

As tech shares softened across the board, the industry's most sensitive gauge, the Nasdaq Composite Index, lost some 2.2% in midday trading.

Thus, for this tumor model, T2 is a more sensitive gauge of changes in tumor edema than ADC.

The records made by the trumpeter Donald Byrd with the baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams are sensitive gauges of the jazz mainstream.

Meanwhile, tech-sensitive gauge Nasdaq Composite Index edged up 0.2% to 2797.

Those concerns weighed heavily on interest-rate sensitive stocks, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.1% while tech-sensitive gauge Nasdaq Composite Index lost 0.6%.

Although Cisco Systems csco single-handedly held the Nasdaq Composite Index above water through most of the session, the tech-sensitive gauge finally succumbed to the pressure and gave up 1.10% to close at 2775.

Lifted by a rise among interest rate-sensitive stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.1% around midday while tech-sensitive gauge Nasdaq Composite Index edged up 1%.