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detector

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In electronics , a detector is an older term for an electronic component in a radio receiver that recovers information contained in a modulated radio wave . The term dates from the first three decades of radio (1886-1916). Unlike modern radio stations which ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES lie detector test ▪ He was asked to take a lie detector test . lie detector ▪ He was asked to take a lie detector test . metal detector smoke detector COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE sensitive ▪ Invisible to the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detector \De*tect"or\, n. [L., a revealer.] One who, or that which, detects; a detecter. --Shak. A deathbed's detector of the heart. --Young. 2. Specifically: An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler. (Elec.) A galvanometer, usually ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 [syn: sensor , sensing element ] rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave [syn: demodulator ] electronic ...

Usage examples of detector.

Particle accelerators are based on the same principle: They hurl bits of matter such as electrons and protons at each other as well as at other targets, and elaborate detectors analyze the resulting spray of debris to determine the architecture of the objects involved.

Working quickly, he attached the much smaller, but much more efficient crystal-lattice trap and accelerometer to a port upstream from the main detector, where the substation tapped into the Tevatron flow.

If it was a smoke detector in need of a battery, she was going to rip the damned thing right off the ceiling.

I explained my conceit, keeping the upstairs part of the house turn-of-another-century except for a few sensible improvements: media center, smoke and particulate detectors, a deionizer built into a squat wooden 1920s icebox.

Quel posto dove si deve passare per il metal detector con due vicesceriffi di.

Instead, each individual vessel was blasting at maximum for the position in space in which it would form one unit of a formation englobing at a distance of light-years the entire Solarian System, and each of those hurtling hundreds of ships was literally combing all circumambient space with its furiously-driven detector beams.

He quickly found the metal detectors and radiation counters of which Espe had spoken.

I boarded the plane carrying several frying thermometers, which set off the metal detector, a few extra pairs of tongs, and a bag of chapati flour for making puffy pooris.

Also, they must contain some purely mechanical gimmick or they would show up on detector screens.

For that matter, Ussmak could have been one of the poor wretches in radiation suits who guddled around in the freezing Tosevite slime for the bits of radioactive material their detectors found.

My detector had then handed over my purse, containing forty ducats, to the police, and the money had of course been confiscated.

There were metal detectors on the staff-room doors and Hernandez usually had a drawer full of push-daggers, nunchuks, stunguns, knucks, boot-knives, and whatever else the detectors had picked up.

Botanists have plants whose passionate emotional lives can be monitored with He detectors, anthropologists have surviving ape-men, zoologists have extant dinosaurs, and evolutionary biologists have Biblical literalists snapping at their flanks.

We will let one go, with a mauler accompanying her, but well outside detector range.

But with luck a ninja might be captured, and then perhaps truth serum or a lie detector would bring forth the necessary information.