Definitions for detectordɪˈtɛk tər

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

de•tec•tordɪˈtɛk tər(n.)

  1. a person or thing that detects.

  2. any of various devices for detecting and registering the presence of or a change in something.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  3. 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.

    Category: Telegraphy and Telephony, Electronics

Origin of detector:

1535–45; < LL

Princeton's WordNet

  1. detector, sensor, sensing element(noun)

    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

  2. detector, demodulator(noun)

    rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave

  3. detector(noun)

    electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. detector(noun)ɪˈtɛk tər

    a device for sensing if sth is present

    a metal/smoke detector

Wiktionary

  1. detector(Noun)

    A device capable of registering a specific substance or physical phenomenon.

    Smoke detectors are mandatory in public buildings.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Detector(noun)

    one who, or that which, detects; a detecter

The Standard Electrical Dictionary

  1. Detector

    A portable galvanometer, often of simple construction, used for rough or approximate work.


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