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detector

/dih-tek-ter/US // dɪˈtɛk tər //UK // (dɪˈtɛktə) //

检测器,侦测器,探测器,探测仪

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that detects.
    • : a device for detecting smoke, fire, or some other hazardous condition.
    • : a device for detecting the presence of metal, contraband, or other items that might be hidden or concealed.
    • : Telecommunications. 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.

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Examples

  • After bouncing off tissue and blood, the particles of light return to detectors that measure oxygen levels.

  • To do that, you have to find your own way toward hope—there’s no better insincerity detector than a little kid.

  • The bollards and the metal detectors at every door didn’t stop them.

  • Terpenoid detectors might cue an octopus to quickly grasp something it touches before it swims away — or to let go and keep searching.

  • Sensed by the IceCube detector in Antarctica, the neutrino carried 200 trillion electron volts — about 30 times as much energy as that of a proton accelerated by the Large Hadron Collider.

  • The Enquirer story was written by Robin Mizrahi, who interviewed Ferrier and had arranged for her to take a lie detector test.

  • She agreed to meet with tabloid editors in New York City and take a lie detector test to back up her claims.

  • If you recall, Chase took a lie detector test and he passed.

  • He bent the truth throughout his life to ensure that he was known as the man who had invented the lie detector test.

  • She acts as a sort of lie detector, but proceeds through elegant narrative rather than binary test.

  • Peering at the proximity detector, Cragley announced that we were quite safe from a collision.

  • Not even the Gerns had ever been able to devise a polarized detector screen.

  • And, since the frequency was so high, a special detector was required to pick it up.

  • Then he looked at the distance recorded on the meteor detector.

  • Hollingwood, the metallurgist, appeared, dragging with him the detector.