quorum sensing

English

Noun

quorum sensing (uncountable)

1. A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.
   • 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 18:

     An early case of quorum sensing to be uncovered involves—appropriately for this book—the sea and a cephalopod.