Synonym: demodulator, sensing element, sensor. Similar words: lie detector, detect, detected, detective, detection, undetectable, protector, plate tectonics. Meaning: [-tə] 
n. 1. 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. rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave 3. electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity.
n. 1. 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. rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave 3. electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity. 
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1, A Roman soldier's pay, found by a metal detector enthusiast in Norfolk, has been declared treasure trove at an inquest in Diss.
2, This detector is a very delicate instrument; it'll go wrong if it's mishandled.
3, Both men refused to take a lie detector test.
4, The first line of defence is a smoke detector.
5, The sensitivity of the detector can be increased.
6, "Do you have a metal detector?" — "No, I don't.".
7, He was asked to take a lie detector test .
8, It might be prudent to get a virus detector for the network.
9, Now they are building a prototype detector.
10, Kids have a built-in lie detector.
11, Lie detector tests are inadmissible in criminal trials.
12, If you meet another detector user,[http://sentencedict.com/detector.html] introduce yourself.
13, Internal spring contacts in the detector transfer the power.
14, There are security checks, body searches, a metal detector.
15, He was holding the metal detector.
16, A weapons detector has been installed at the entrance.
17, There were several shouts from other detector users, who must have found something similar.
18, There are now 30,000 metal detector users in Britain alone.
19, Be it in a mousetrap or an atomic detector, the right kind of trip-lever can always trigger an arbitrarily large effect.
20, Every feature detector in the feature-detection stage is linked to every letter detector in the letter-detector stage.
21, He developed a detector for decays of carbon-14, a radioactive form of carbon, that can be used to this end.
22, The detector has active anti-condensation protection to assure trouble free operation in cold-rooms.
23, Computerized detector modules translate those light shifts into stress units, providing advance notice of failure.
24, The position detector pulse sent to the control unit is used to generate the next step command.
25, Their approach is to scan every checked-in bag with a bomb detector.
26, He goes round fields and beaches with his metal detector, hoping to find buried treasure.
27, Although other factors are involved, the depreciation in value is principally due to the number of these coins found by detector users.
28, Always check for electrical wires and eater pipes with a pipe and cable detector before drilling walls, floors and ceilings.
29, Something about his rubbery features and squeaky voice trigger my cootie detector.
30, With the greatest of reluctance, I decided that it was time I bought myself another detector.
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