Detector synonyms

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indicator
Any device, as a gauge, dial, register, or pointer, that measures or records and visibly indicates
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detectaphone
A device for listening secretly to others' telephone conversations
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photomultiplier (related)
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pointer
(Computing) An icon that indicates the position of the mouse; a cursor.
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warner
An occupational surname, reduced from Warrener.
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locater
Something which serves to locate
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discoverer
One who discovers; the person who discovered something.
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director
Of a corporation, an individual selected to serve on its board of directors and thereby oversee the management of its affairs.
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radar
A special ability to perceive, recognize, or find a particular kind of thing, behavior, etc.
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distant early warning line
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dew-line
A line of radar stations near the 70th parallel across the North American continent, maintained by the United States and Canada and intended to give advance warning of approaching enemy aircraft and missiles.
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sonar
The definition of sonar is a system that sends out sound waves and measures how long it takes for them to be reflected and returned as a way to detect the depth of water or to find objects under water.
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lie-detector
An instrument designed to detect when a person has answered a question falsely.
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sound detector
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sensing element
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
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demodulator
(Radio) A device used in demodulation
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calorimeter
(Physics) An apparatus for measuring the heat generated or absorbed by either a chemical reaction, change of phase or some other physical change.
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pyrometer
An instrument with which high temperatures, beyond the range of ordinary thermometers, are measured
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telethermometer
An apparatus for determining the temperature of a distant point, by a thermoelectric circuit or otherwise.
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sensor (related)
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photodiode (related)
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hpge (related)
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infra red (related)
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laser (related)
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mid-infrared (related)
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thermopile (related)
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magnetometer (related)
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emitter (related)
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terahertz (related)
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spectrometer (related)
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infrared (related)
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photodetectors (related)
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scintillator (related)
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Cherenkov (related)
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revealer
A person or thing that reveals.
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polygraph
(Archaic) A collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
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listening device
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spotter
A person who observes something.
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Detector Sentence Examples

  • Running the lie detector, no doubt.

  • One form such a detector takes is the bolometer.

  • Hughes was a far more sensitive detector.

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

  • In the same way the arrangements finally elaborated by Lodge and Muirhead consisted of a direct coupled antenna and nearly closed condenser circuit, and a similar receiving circuit containing as a detector the steel wheel revolving on oily mercury which actuated a siphon recorder writing signals on paper tape.

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