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Mouse Sensitivity Glossary

The important words behind gaming mouse sensitivity calculators.

DPI

Dots per inch, used as a practical label for the number of mouse sensor counts per inch of travel. Check your configured mouse DPI.

eDPI

Effective DPI. Mouse DPI multiplied by the game's sensitivity multiplier, useful for comparing setups in one game.

cm/360

Physical mouse travel in centimeters required for a modeled complete 360° view rotation.

Yaw

The modeled degrees of horizontal camera rotation per mouse count at a given sensitivity reference.

Raw input

A mouse input path intended to avoid operating-system pointer-speed transformations. Game implementation varies.

ADS sensitivity

Aim-down-sights sensitivity, often separately scaled from base mouse look.

Mouse acceleration

Additional scaling based on mouse movement speed. If enabled, a simple fixed cm/360 model may not describe all movement speeds.

For worked examples visit What is eDPI? and How we calculate.