Smell
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Smell may refer to:
- OlfactionOlfactionOlfaction is the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates...
, sense of smell, the ability of humans and other animals to perceive odors - OdorOdorAn odor or odour is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction. Odors are also commonly called scents, which can refer to both pleasant and unpleasant odors...
, the percept resultant from the sense of smell. The environmental stimulus which gives rise to a 'smell' which is made up of numerous monomolecular odorants - In programming, a code smellCode smellIn computer programming, code smell is any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem.Often the deeper problem hinted by a code smell can be uncovered when the code is subjected to a short feedback cycle where it is refactored in small, controlled steps, and...
is a symptom in the source code of a program that something is wrong - Smell is like taste and is a chemical sense detected by sensory cells called chemoreceptors.