Detector
[dɪ'tektə] or [dɪ'tɛktɚ]
Definition
(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.
(noun.) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity.
(noun.) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, detects; a detecter.
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Examples
- A loop of wire, with the ends almost touching each other, had been his receiver, or detector. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Professor Oliver Lodge named this device of Branly’s a coherer, and when he found that it was more sensitive than the Hertz detector he combined it with the Hertz oscillator. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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