Synonyms for detector
dɪˈtɛk tərde·tec·tor

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1. detector, sensor, sensing elementnoun

   any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner

   Synonyms:
   sensor, demodulator, sensing element

2. detector, demodulatornoun

   rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

   Synonyms:
   sensor, demodulator, sensing element

3. detectornoun

   electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

   Synonyms:
   sensor, demodulator, sensing element

Matched Categories

1. • Electronic Equipment
   • Rectifier

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1. exposer

   similar meaning !!!

   Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  

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1. List of paraphrases for "detector":

   detectors, polygraph, sensor, recognizer, spotter, detection, scanner, alarm

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1. Lynnell Frenning-Wallace:

   This lady from Holland contacted me through Facebook Messenger and said her father was looking with a metal detector in the area of Market Garden in Holland and he found my dad’s helmet from World War 2, i said I would pay the postage on it and he said, ‘absolutely not, I will send it free of charge’.

2. Tom DeLuca:

   Owners do not want the experience at their theater to be a negative one, and going through a metal detector and having their bags checked would become a big inconvenience, my gut tells me that people would say 'Why am I coming here? It must be dangerous. I don't want to bring my children to this theater, so we'll go somewhere else,'.

3. Tim Naftali:

   They wanted to move a bug. They had three more bugs, which they wanted to plant. They were also going to put a listening device in a smoke detector, this would have been a massive espionage operation had it succeeded.

4. Don Crawley:

   It was my first visit to this farmers land in Suffolk, after walking up an incline in the field, my Deus detector gave off a strong signal and within a short space of time I had recovered over 93 coins.

5. Curtis Sliwa:

   Knowing that many gang members go to schools, if for nothing more [than] to recruit and sell drugs, they're going to be able to resolve their disputes in the classrooms, in the lunchrooms, within the school buildings itself, because now they won't even fear… a pat-down or having to go put their backpack through a metal detector, this is not focusing on what the real problem is.