as in sensor
a device that detects some physical quantity and responds usually with a transmitted signal
a motion detector to thwart burglaries
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One of the most useful among them is the AI detector, which helps owners maintain originality and avoid copyright issues.
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Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Smart home devices and smart sensors like water and moisture detectors may beep to indicate a dying battery or to alert you of a potential problem.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
The photon detectors were clustered over two brain regions: the occipital lobes in the back of the brain, which are responsible for visual processing, and temporal lobes on each side of the brain, which are responsible for auditory processing.
—Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But a single detector has 4,000 pixels, and the camera has 189 CCD detectors tracking the sky.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 June 2025
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Ascend Agency, New York Daily News, 27 June 2025
Smart home devices and smart sensors like water and moisture detectors may beep to indicate a dying battery or to alert you of a potential problem.
—Kamron Sanders, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 June 2025
The photon detectors were clustered over two brain regions: the occipital lobes in the back of the brain, which are responsible for visual processing, and temporal lobes on each side of the brain, which are responsible for auditory processing.
—Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But a single detector has 4,000 pixels, and the camera has 189 CCD detectors tracking the sky.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for detector
sensor
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The feeder has anti-jam technology, low food detection sensors, and a backup battery in case of power failure.—
Molly Higgins,
Wired News,
11 July 2025
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New missions are being designed to process data directly in space using AI, quantum sensors and edge computing.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
11 July 2025
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“Detector.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/detector. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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