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detector

[ dih-tek-ter ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that detects.
  2. a device for detecting smoke, fire, or some other hazardous condition.
  3. a device for detecting the presence of metal, contraband, or other items that might be hidden or concealed.
  4. Telecommunications.
    1. a device for detecting electric oscillations or waves.
    2. a device, as a crystal detector or a vacuum tube, that rectifies the alternating current in a radio receiver.


detector

/ »åɪˈ³ÙÉ›°ì³ÙÉ™ /

noun

  1. a person or thing that detects
  2. any mechanical sensing device
  3. electronics a device used in the detection of radio signals
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of detector1

1535–45; < Late Latin »åŧ³Ùŧ³¦³Ù´Ç°ù revealer, equivalent to Latin »åŧ³Ù±ð²µ ( ere ) to uncover, reveal ( detect ) + -tor -tor
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The rats can check an area the size of a tennis court in about 30 minutes, the charity says, whereas a human with a metal detector might take four days to clear the same land.

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Ron Walters, 76, from Kingswinford, West Midlands, found the coin with his metal detector in Wall Heath near Dudley last year.

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He says he was scouring a field with a metal detector on the Danish island of Taasinge, when he unearthed the metal object.

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When discovered by a police officer with a metal detector on a cold November morning last year, the iPad was found caked in mud having been underwater for more than five years.

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That’s on top of other added expenses: enhanced security systems at his home, the necessary use of metal detectors at town hall meetings and while appearing in the districts of other lawmakers.

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