detector
pronunciation
How to pronounce detector in British English:
UK [dɪˈtektə(r)]
How to pronounce detector in American English:
US [dɪˈtektər]
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- 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
- rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave
- electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity
Word Origin
- detector (n.)
- 1540s, from Latin detector "uncoverer, revealer," agent noun from detectus, past participle of detegere (see detect).
Example
- 1. There was a motion detector in his room now .
- 2. That trolley is a flaw detector sapfir .
- 3. He scans it with his detector .
- 4. Taylor says , easing his scintillation detector up to it .
- 5. The detector and arrays combine to make the icecube neutrino observatory .