as in sensor
a device that detects some physical quantity and responds usually with a transmitted signal
a motion detector to thwart burglaries
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New speed detectors in construction work zones Under Assembly Bill 289, California will launch a pilot program that uses new speed detectors in highway work zones to improve safety.
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Sacbee.com, 4 Jan. 2026
Continually curating fresh data and retraining detectors is costly, and detectors inevitably lag behind the systems they are meant to identify.
—Ambuj Tewari, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
Popular detectors like Turnitin, GPTZero and Copyleaks misidentified some things as AI that weren't, and vice versa, according to findings by Mike Perkins, a leading researcher on academic integrity and AI at British University Vietnam.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
Continually curating fresh data and retraining detectors is costly, and detectors inevitably lag behind the systems they are meant to identify.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
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Sacbee.com, 4 Jan. 2026
Continually curating fresh data and retraining detectors is costly, and detectors inevitably lag behind the systems they are meant to identify.
—Ambuj Tewari, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
Popular detectors like Turnitin, GPTZero and Copyleaks misidentified some things as AI that weren't, and vice versa, according to findings by Mike Perkins, a leading researcher on academic integrity and AI at British University Vietnam.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025
Continually curating fresh data and retraining detectors is costly, and detectors inevitably lag behind the systems they are meant to identify.
—Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 18 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for detector
sensor
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Samsung designed the sensor to push physical limits while maintaining strong light absorption and signal accuracy.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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More than 300 million data points are collected by Next Gen Stats per season using in-stadium sensors that can track players’ location and speed using tags inside their shoulder pads, said Amazon, whose web services help power the stats platform.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
10 Jan. 2026
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“Detector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detector. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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