Definitions for detector

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detector de·tec·tor

Spelling: [dih-tek-ter]

IPA: /dɪˈtɛk tər/

Detector is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in detector (cdeeortt).

Definitions for detector

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. 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.

Origin of detector

1535-45; Late Latin dētēctor revealer, equivalent to Latin dēteg(ere) to uncover, reveal (see detect) + -tor -tor

Examples for detector

The detector was simple, though the tuning had to be precise.

It looped and turned, hunting, feeling with its every detector for that other ship.

The first thing I want to ask you about is this detector of yours.

But of course they didn't have our detector screens nor our armament.

Edwardson asked, over the clamor of the detector alarm bell.

"At first we thought of errors in the detector machine," he went on.

The detector, although the most important of the instruments, is perhaps the simplest.

He had his detector going, and Anita warned me not to try it.

No doubt they are all right; but just to pass time, I'll compare them with the detector here.

His detector now was in his hand, but Halsey anticipated him by a second or two.