detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər 
Examples of detector in a Sentence
using metal detectors to improve safety at airports
a motion detector to thwart burglaries
Recent Examples on the Web
Each detector, which includes two towers and a floor mount, costs about $16,480.
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Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
This, finally, inspired Ken to dust off his cheap detector, to venture beyond his own yard.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
In other areas downtown where parks and businesses have planned viewing events for the draft, like Grand Circus Park, Detroit police will also install its weapon detectors, Fulgenzi said.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
Command doesn't require one of those, so it's just turned off and hanging on the wall; similarly, the new smoke and monoxide detectors are now installed in the ceiling with the old ones right next to them.
—PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
Airborne observations offer important advantages over current survey approaches that typically involve a worker walking across portions of the landfill with a detector logging locations of high surface concentrations of methane.
—Aaron Clark, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
To improve the road’s safety measures without damaging the tree, the girls install a motion detector that sets off a flashing light to notify drivers when people are crossing the street.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
If the Custom Home price is simply too high for you, ADT also has a Command System Starter Kit that includes a Command panel, three door or window sensors, and a motion detector.
—PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
By nightfall, the street was crowded with apparently hot merchandise: carbon-monoxide detectors, Leviton tamper-resistant outlets, and, notably, hundreds of heavy spools of copper and electrical wiring, the most expensive of which can retail for more than seven hundred dollars.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
Jimena Tavel, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2024
This, finally, inspired Ken to dust off his cheap detector, to venture beyond his own yard.
—Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2024
In other areas downtown where parks and businesses have planned viewing events for the draft, like Grand Circus Park, Detroit police will also install its weapon detectors, Fulgenzi said.
—Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2024
Command doesn't require one of those, so it's just turned off and hanging on the wall; similarly, the new smoke and monoxide detectors are now installed in the ceiling with the old ones right next to them.
—PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
Airborne observations offer important advantages over current survey approaches that typically involve a worker walking across portions of the landfill with a detector logging locations of high surface concentrations of methane.
—Aaron Clark, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2024
To improve the road’s safety measures without damaging the tree, the girls install a motion detector that sets off a flashing light to notify drivers when people are crossing the street.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Mar. 2024
If the Custom Home price is simply too high for you, ADT also has a Command System Starter Kit that includes a Command panel, three door or window sensors, and a motion detector.
—PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
By nightfall, the street was crowded with apparently hot merchandise: carbon-monoxide detectors, Leviton tamper-resistant outlets, and, notably, hundreds of heavy spools of copper and electrical wiring, the most expensive of which can retail for more than seven hundred dollars.
—Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
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detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər
1
: one that detects or warns
a smoke detector
2
: a device in a radio receiver for changing the high-frequency current of radio waves into current that can vibrate a loudspeaker to reproduce the original sound
Medical Definition
detector
noun
de·tec·tor
di-ˈtek-tər
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