detector

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/dɪˈtɛktə(ɹ)/(UK)

Definition of detector

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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.

“Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.”
“At 2255, it passed a hot axle box detector at Great Bridgeford. No problem here - the detector detected no abnormal temperatures anywhere in the consist.”

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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.

“Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.”
“At 2255, it passed a hot axle box detector at Great Bridgeford. No problem here - the detector detected no abnormal temperatures anywhere in the consist.”
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.
A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon, and that optionally sounds an alarm or triggers a warning.

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Borrowed from Latin dētēctor. Equals detect + -or (agent noun forming suffix).

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