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lie detector

Word definitions for lie detector in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context informal English) A polygraph, a device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being asked to a subject, in an attempt to ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lie detector is the popular term for a polygraph , a device that measures and records physiological indices, under the belief that these are useful for lie detection . Lie Detector may also refer to: Silent Talker Lie Detector , an alternative to the polygraph, ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For his own information, Boesen asked Hicks to take a lie detector test. ▪ Kids have a built-in lie detector . ▪ Too little; far, far, far too much, straight to a lie detector . ▪ Wagenbach rejected a bid by Elliott to introduce ...

Usage examples of lie detector.

His brain, educated in accepting things as they were, had already adjusted to the fact that a lie detector didn't lie.

And you'll do all that while you're within range of the lie detector.

But Welk will now place the pickup of a lie detector at your feet.

Everyone knew what Pagadan could do to a lie detector, and as for the other—.