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Definition: Detector |
DetectorNoun1. Any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it. 2. Rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave. 3. Electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "detector" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Etymology: Detector \De*tect"or\, noun. [Latin, a revealer.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. = sensor, sense 1.2. An instrument employing a sensor, sense 1, to detect the pressure of something in the surrounding environment. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A transducer device in a receiver which produces an electrical output signal from a received incident optical signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A device, having non-linear conducting characteristics, used for detection. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Energy | A material or device that is sensitive to radiation and can produce a response signal suitable for measurement or analysis. A radiation detection instrument. (references) |
Mining | A. See:magnetic detector b. See:seismometer c. The component of a remote-sensing system that converts electromagnetic radiation into a signal that can be recorded. See also:pickup Syn:radiation detectord. See:sensor. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | An instrument for determining presence and sometimes measuring the amount of radiation or neutron flux. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A device in a radiometer that senses the presence and intensity of radiation. The incoming radiation is usually modified by filters or other optical components that restrict the radiation to a specific spectral band. The information can either be transmitted immediately or recorded for transmittal at a later time. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term detector has the following meanings:
Note: Currently, this conversion is from optical to electrical power; however, optical-to-optical techniques are under development.
- A device that is responsive to the presence or absence of a stimulus.
- In an AM radio receiver, a circuit or device that recovers the signal of interest from the modulated wave.
- In FM reception, a circuit called a discriminator is used to convert frequency variations to amplitude variations.
- In an optical communications receiver, a device that converts the received optical signal to another form.
In astronomy, the detecting devices generally used is charge-coupled devices (CCD), although, before the 1990s, photographic plates were the most common.
- Source: from Federal Standard 1037C
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Detector."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DELPHI | English | Detector for Lepton,Photon and Hadron Identification | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: DetectorSynonyms: demodulator (n), sensing element (n), sensor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer, earthquake detector. |
Indication | Diagnostic, divining rod; detector. |
Velocity | Log, log line; speedometer, odometer, tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind sock, wind speed meter; pedometer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I hate to disappoint you both, bu that's not a security camera, that's a smoke detector! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) This is a smoke detector. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond) | |
Movie/TV Titles | El Detector (1960) Lie Detector (1999) The Lust Detector (1986) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dr. Robert H. Huffaker is testing what will be an air-tight cabinet, by introducing Freon gas, and using a GE Halogen gas detector in order to detect any leakage of the contained gas. Credit: CDC. |  | Using a metal detector to find coins on Yap. Credit: Small World. |
 | Kiowa, Kansas. At Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail detector car. These cars are actually travelling scientific instruments, which not only detect faulty rails but also record the place and extent of the defect. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | A radioactivity detector and computer record the pattern of radioactivity distribution to various parts of the heart muscle. (references) | |
Business | The smoke detector segment presents the same situation with the United States in a commanding position in the market (above 85% market share). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Detector" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Detector" is used about 529 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 529 | 11,572 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "detector": above ground detector ♦ activation detector ♦ amplifying semiconductor detector ♦ bolometric detector ♦ coherent detector ♦ crystal detector ♦ Detector bar ♦ Detector lock ♦ earthquake detector ♦ electron capture detector ♦ Faraday cup detector ♦ fire and overheat detector ♦ fire detector ♦ flaw detector ♦ gas detector ♦ Hall detector ♦ heterodyne detector ♦ holiday detector ♦ leak detector ♦ lie detector ♦ linear detector ♦ lithium drifted germanium detector ♦ lithium drifted semiconductor detector ♦ local overheat detector ♦ magnetic anomaly detector bird ♦ metal detector ♦ mine detector ♦ phase detector ♦ proximity detector ♦ pyroelectric detector ♦ radiation detector ♦ smoke detector ♦ stop line detector ♦ thallium activated sodium iodide detector ♦ Time detector ♦ totally depleted semiconductor detector ♦ toxic gas detector ♦ void detector ♦ Watchman's detector ♦ Watchman's time detector. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "detector": detector-1, detector-found, detector-operated. | |
Ending with "detector": letter-detector, lie-detector, word-detector. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
radar detector | 4,867 | passport radar detector | 119 |
metal detector | 2,740 | radar detector test | 118 |
escort radar detector | 395 | laser radar detector | 118 |
white metal detector | 391 | laser detector | 114 |
smoke detector | 388 | gold detector | 110 |
lie detector | 359 | bounty hunter metal detector | 109 |
motion detector | 328 | bug detector | 102 |
detector irc nukes | 286 | fisher metal detector | 102 |
cobra radar detector | 262 | cordless radar detector | 100 |
whistler radar detector | 239 | lightning detector | 94 |
radar detector review | 233 | leak detector | 89 |
carbon monoxide detector | 211 | bounty hunter detector | 88 |
gas detector | 206 | virus detector | 84 |
lie detector test | 180 | radar detector comparison | 82 |
detector | 163 | used metal detector | 78 |
radar detector best | 149 | counterfeit detector | 75 |
bel radar detector | 143 | infrared detector | 72 |
valentine radar detector | 139 | uniden radar detector | 62 |
spyware detector | 131 | combustible gas detector | 61 |
garrett metal detector | 124 | radar detector motorcycle | 56 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "detector"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | detektor, zbulues (contriver, discoverer, explorer, guide, intelligencer, inventor, reconnaissance, scourer, scout). (various references) | |
Arabic | مكتشف (discovered, discoverer, prospector, retriever), المكشاف أداة, المقوم أداة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | указател (cursor, indicator, needle, pointer, register), индикатор (indicator), детектор (rectifier). (various references) | |
Chinese | 探测器 (finder), 探測器 (craft, probe), 檢測器 . (various references) | |
Czech | detektor. (various references) | |
Danish | detektor (detecting circuit, detecting equipment, detector equipment, sensor), strålingsdetektor (radiation detector). (various references) | |
Dutch | detector (demodulator, detecting element, detecting equipment, detector equipment, head, probe, sensing component, sensor, sensor element), stralingsdetector (radiation detector). (various references) | |
Finnish | detektori, ilmaisin (indicator). (various references) | |
French | détecteur (detecting). (various references) | |
German | Detektor (radiation detector), Gleichrichter (rectifier, commutator), Anzeiger (indicator, indicators). (various references) | |
Greek | φωρατής (demodulator), ανιχνευτική συσκευή, ανιχνευτήσ (scout, sleuth, tracker), ανιχνευτής ακτινοβολιών (radiation detector), ανιχνευτής (sensor), Ανιχνευτής.. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגלה (discoverer, finder, path finder), חשף, גלאי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | detektor, felfedezõ (discoverer, explorer). (various references) | |
Indonesian | detektor. (various references) | |
Italian | rivelatore (telltale). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss), デジタル通信 (copy editor, dead, dead copy, dead end, dead heat, dead stock, dead time, deadline, deadlock, death, death education, death mask, debug, debugger, debugging, deck, deck chair, dedicate, dedication, deduction, de-escalate, de-escalation, Denebola, denier, denim, denomination, denotation, denotational, department, department store, departure, description, desk, desk plan, desk work, desk-top, desperate, desperate struggle, despotism, destination, destroyer, detached coat, detail, detente, deterrent gap, Detroit, devaluation, device, digital communication, distributor cap, divider, fight to a finish, hit a batter by pitching a ball, rough sketch, to eat at Denny's), 探知器 (locator), 探知機 , 検出器 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たんちき (locator), デテクター , ディテクター , ディテクタ , けんしゅつき. (various references) | |
Korean | 발견자 (Discoverer). (various references) | |
Manx | brahder (betrayer, informer, traitor). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etectorday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | detector (detective). (various references) | |
Romanian | detector, semnal de alarmã (alarm signal, siren), avertizor (alarm signal). (various references) | |
Russian | следящее устройство (tracer), прибор для обнаружения, детектор детекторный, детектор (cymoscope, rectifier), датчик (sensor). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | detektor. (various references) | |
Spanish | detector (detecting). (various references) | |
Swedish | detektor. (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องตรวจจับ. (various references) | |
Turkish | detektör, bulucu, akım yönlendirici. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | прилад для виявлення, детектор (cymoscope, rectifier). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người tìm ra (discoverer, finder), người khám phá ra (discoverer), người dò ra. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "detector": detectors. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "detector": photodetector. (additional references) | |
Words containing "detector": photodetectors. (additional references) | |
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"Detector" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deiectos, Delecour, Derecho, detecta, detecton, Detencao. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "detector" (pronounced dute"kter) |
| 6 | -u t e" k t er | protector. |
| 4 | -e" k t er | collector, connecter, connector, defector, director, erector, Hector, injector, inspector, lector, nectar, objector, projector, rector, sector, Specter, spectre, vector. |
| 3 | -k t er | abductor, actor, benefactor, character, chiropractor, compactor, conductor, constrictor, constructor, contractor, detractor, doctor, factor, inductor, instructor, malefactor, predictor, Proctor, prospector, reactor, refractor, semiconductor, stricter, subcontractor, superconductor, tractor, Victor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cottered. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: tetrode. | |
-2 letters: cotter, detect, dotter, recode, retted, rotted, tercet, teredo. | |
-3 letters: ceder, cered, coder, cored, coted, credo, creed, decor, deter, doter, erect, erode, octet, otter, recto, rotte, terce, torte, toted, toter, treed, trode. | |
-4 letters: cede, cere, cero, cete, code, coed, cord, core, cote, deco, deer, deet, dere, doer, dore, dote, dree, rede, redo, reed. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: detectors, protected. | |
+2 letters: retroacted. | |
+3 letters: condottiere, decorticate, directorate, introjected, recommitted, recontacted, retrodicted, ricochetted, testcrossed, unprotected. | |
+4 letters: concentrated, consternated, controverted, correctitude, counteracted, countertrade, countertrend, decorticated, decorticates, directorates, electrocuted, electrotyped, expectorated, introspected, orchestrated, outstretched, retrodictive, retrospected. | |
+5 letters: compartmented, correctitudes, counterfeited, counterstated, countertrades, countertrends, deconcentrate, deconstructed, decrepitation, densitometric, electroplated, nonrestricted, overcommitted, overprotected, overstretched, photodetector, reconstituted, reconstructed, tetrachloride, trinucleotide. | |
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