Detector Synonyms

dĭ-tĕktər
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. radar
  2. sensor
  3. indicator
  4. pointer
  5. revealer
  6. warner
  7. locater
  8. discoverer
  9. director
  10. distant early warning line
  11. dew-line
  12. sonar
  13. demodulator
  14. detectaphone
  15. lie-detector
  16. polygraph
  17. listening device
  18. sound detector
  19. spotter
  20. calorimeter
  21. telethermometer
  22. sensing element
  23. pyrometer

Words Related to Detector

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Detector Sentence Examples

  • Running the lie detector, no doubt.

  • One form such a detector takes is the bolometer.

  • Wilson constructed various forms of electric wave detector depending on this same principle.

  • It was then proposed to arrange a detector so that it was affected by the algebraic sum of the two oscillations, and by swivelling round the double receiving antennae to locate the direction of the sending station by finding out when the detector gave the best signal.

  • An opportunity to listen to bats using our bat detector.

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