Paineherkän

Paineherkän is the inflected form of the Finnish adjective paineherkkä, which means pressure-sensitive or sensitive to pressure. The term is typically used in technical and scientific Finnish to describe materials, devices, or systems that react to changes in pressure. As an adjective, paineherkkä forms phrases with nouns, and paineherkän often appears when the adjective modifies a noun in cases such as genitive or partitive within a larger noun phrase (for example, paineherkän anturin kalibrointi, the calibration of a pressure-sensitive sensor).

In practice, the expression paineherkän is not a separate lexical entry but a grammatical form used to express possession or association with a noun. This makes it common in engineering manuals, scientific articles, and patent texts where precise description of components is needed. Typical contexts include sensors, actuators, and materials whose behavior changes under pressure, such as paineherkkä niiden ominaisuudet (the properties of pressure-sensitive ones).

Etymology: the word is a compound of paine (pressure) and herkkä (sensitive). The combined form paineherkkä is the base adjective, and paineherkän is one of its inflected endings used in phrases that require a determiner in other cases.

See also: paineanturi, pressure sensor; sensor technology; materials science.

Paineherkän appears mainly in Finnish technical language and standard reference texts dealing with pressure-responsive systems.