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Given here is an illustration of sensor response to an input signal: the output is generated proportionally to the signal, and has a region of maximum sensitivity. This region can be narrow in a digital on-off relay, or continuously spread over a broad range of input values to generate an analog proportional output. To see this figure in color, go online.
