Phrase Hound found 18 phrases and 9 compound words that contain detectors. The most common are listed below. Open detectors in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 18
- smoke detectorsplural of smoke detector: A device that sounds an alarm when it detects smoke or other evidence of a fire.
- metal detectorsplural of metal detector: A hand-held device that uses electromagnetic induction to detect buried metal.
- lie detectorsplural of lie detector: A device designed to detect or indicate when a person is lying by measuring and recording several physiological variables.
- motion detectorsplural of motion detector: A device used in security systems that can alert the user of the presence of a moving object.
- bat detectorsplural of bat detector: A device that helps to identify the presence of bats by converting their echolocation ultrasound signals to audible frequencies.
- currency detectorsplural of currency detector: A device that determines whether notes or coins are genuine or counterfeit.
- envelope detectorsplural of envelope detector: An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated envelope of the original signal.
- heat detectorsplural of heat detector: A device that detects heat and sounds an alarm.
- junction detectorsplural of junction detector: A device in which the detection of radiation takes place at the depletion junction of a reverse-biased semiconductor junction.
- lightning detectorsplural of lightning detector: A device that provides an alarm to inform its user(s) that lightning has occurred nearby. Specific devices are available for a variety of applications.
- peak detectorsplural of peak detector: An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated envelope of the original signal.
- time detectorsplural of time detector: A timepiece provided with a device for registering and indicating the exact time when a watchman visits certain stations on his beat.
- window detectorsplural of window detector: A special type of comparator which provides an indication of whether the input voltage is within a specified range.
- electron capture detectorsplural of electron capture detector: An item of laboratory equipment used coupled to a gas chromatograph for the detection and quantification of very minute amounts halogenated organic compounds.
- sarcasm detectorsplural of sarcasm detector: A supposed innate ability to identify sarcasm.
- Canny edge detectorsplural of Canny edge detector: An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.
- lithium-drifted silicon detectorsplural of lithium-drifted silicon detector: a radiation detector used in astrophysics, nuclear physics, imaging and X-ray spectroscopy
- Everhart-Thornley detectorsplural of Everhart-Thornley detector: A secondary electron and back-scattered electron detector used in scanning electron microscopes.
Compound words 9
- photodetectorsplural of photodetector: Any device used to detect electromagnetic radiation
- autodetectorsplural of autodetector: An automatic detector.
- biodetectorsplural of biodetector: Any device that detects, records or transmits physiological data, especially data concerning the presence of chemical compounds (analytes)
- cryodetectorsplural of cryodetector: Any of several devices that detect something by measuring small differences in very low temperatures
- fluorodetectorsplural of fluorodetector: A fluorescence detector
- geodetectorsplural of geodetector: A device, or underlying mathematical method, used to detect geological strata
- microdetectorsplural of microdetector: A very small detector
- radiodetectorsplural of radiodetector: A hand-held device that is used to detect underground cables or pipes, by means of radiodetection
- subdetectorsplural of subdetector: A component of a compound detector