DETECTOR meaning: Device that identifies or measures

We found 39 dictionaries that define the word Detector:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

detector: Merriam-Webster
detector: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
detector: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
detector: Collins English Dictionary
detector: Vocabulary.com
Detector, detector: Wordnik
detector: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
detector: Wiktionary
detector: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
detector: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
detector: Infoplease Dictionary
detector: Dictionary.com
detector: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Detector (film), Detector (radio), Detector: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Detector: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
detector: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
detector: Rhymezone
Detector: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
detector: FreeDictionary.org
detector: Mnemonic Dictionary
detector: TheFreeDictionary.com
detector: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

I T Glossary (No longer online)
detector: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

detector: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
detector: Medical dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)

Detector: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
Detector: Extragalactic Astronomy
Detector: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detector)

▸ 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.

Opposite:

concealer, hider, obfuscator, disguiser, masker

Types:

Geiger counter, ionization chamber, neutron counter, gamma counter, neutron detector, more...

Phrases:

lie detector, metal detector, Phase detector, smoke detector, radiation detector, more...

Adjectives:

sensitive, crystal, second, single, ray, thermal, linear, infrared, magnetic, optical, null

Colors:

red, green, blue, yellow, orange, more...

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