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detector
[ dih-tek-ter ]
noun
- a person or thing that detects.
- a device for detecting smoke, fire, or some other hazardous condition.
- a device for detecting the presence of metal, contraband, or other items that might be hidden or concealed.
- Telecommunications.
- a device for detecting electric oscillations or waves.
- a device, as a crystal detector or a vacuum tube, that rectifies the alternating current in a radio receiver.
detector
/ »åɪˈ³ÙÉ›°ì³ÙÉ™ /
noun
- a person or thing that detects
- any mechanical sensing device
- electronics a device used in the detection of radio signals
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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.
Ron Walters, 76, from Kingswinford, West Midlands, found the coin with his metal detector in Wall Heath near Dudley last year.
He says he was scouring a field with a metal detector on the Danish island of Taasinge, when he unearthed the metal object.
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.
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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