Detector Definition
dĭ-tĕktər
detectors
noun
detectors
One that detects, especially a mechanical, electrical, or chemical device that automatically identifies and records or registers a stimulus, such as an environmental change in pressure or temperature, an electric signal, or radiation from a radioactive material.
American Heritage
A person or thing that detects.
Webster's New World
An apparatus or device for indicating the presence of something, as electric waves.
Webster's New World
Webster's New World
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon.
Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
- pyrometer
- calorimeter
- demodulator
- sensing element
- sensor
- telethermometer
- sound detector
- listening device
- lie-detector
- detectaphone
- sonar
- dew-line
- distant early warning line
- director
- discoverer
Other Word Forms of Detector
Noun
Singular:
detector
Plural:
detectorsOrigin of Detector
-
From detect + -or (“agent noun forming suffix”).
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