Usually means: Device that identifies or measures.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. detector: Merriam-Webster
  2. detector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detector: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detector: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detector, detector: Wordnik
  7. detector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detector: Wiktionary
  9. detector: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detector: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. detector: Dictionary.com
  13. detector: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Detector (film), Detector (radio), Detector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Detector: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. detector: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. detector: Rhymezone
  18. Detector: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. detector: FreeDictionary.org
  20. detector: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. detector: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. detector: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. detector: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. detector: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. detector: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Detector: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  3. Detector: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. Detector: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  5. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  4. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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noun:  A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
noun:  An indicator showing the depth of the water in a boiler.
noun:  A galvanometer, usually portable, for indicating the direction of a current.

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