perceptor

Conclusion: There may be a "stereotype threat" trigerred in our subconciousness when we see a black face, even when the perceptor is black.

Self image - Black Vs White Pilgrimage to Self 2006

The chamber seemed to wave crazily as one of his eyes was carried across and set into a perceptor extension.

Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

It was electronic, and needed no solid extension into the hole; its perceptor-unit was mounted on an almost invisible thread that dangled down.

Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

Rhodan, the leader; Marshall, the esper, reader of minds; Okura the emfer, perceptor of electromagnetic frequency wavelengths.

The Venus Trap Mahr, Kurt 1972

The rank of subdeacon suffices for election; the Abb ‚ Legendre relates in his memoirs as a contemporary incident that one of these young legislators, after an escapade, was soundly flogged by his perceptor who had accompanied him to Paris.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

At this tempting sight, the king forgot alike perceptor, guards, and Gray Musketeers.

The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

This sensory receptor with its cerebral perceptor has in the long process of time, aided by vision, under the influence of natural laws of the survival of the fittest, educated and developed an instrument of simple construction (primarily adapted only for the vegetative functions of life and simple vocalisation) into that wonderful instrument the human voice; but by that development, borrowing the words of Huxley, "man has slowly accumulated and organised the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of every individual life in other animals; so that now he stands raised as upon a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting here and there a ray from the infinite source of truth."

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song 1889

"But bear in mind, I'm not a sensitive, I'm a perceptor.

The Dragon Lensman Kyle, David, 1919- 1981