Device and Sensing element

Device noun - A clever often underhanded means to achieve an end.

Sensing element and device are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Sensing element" with "Device", this terms are similar.

Sensing element noun - Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner.

Device and sensing element are semantically related. You can use "Device" instead a noun phrase "Sensing element".